ELEVEN SECONDS. That's all that now separates me from my goal of running a 5K in under 20 minutes. With my new personal record (PR) time of 20:10.9 in the Ann Arbor Turkey Trot 5K last Saturday, I got ever closer to the magic number. I'd say I feel like Roger Bannister trying to break the …
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New AnnArbor.com Post: Runners take to the streets to support public art and Proposal B
Last Thursday evening I put on running gear, pinned a "B4Art" bib on my shirt, and joined twenty or so other people outside the PR Fitness studio for a six-mile run through downtown, local parks, and campus, stopping every so often to admire a sculpture, monument, or mural. The Public Art Awareness Run was a fun, low-key …
Running for Art, Running Like Hell, Setting the Pace
IT WAS QUITE A WEEKEND FOR RUNNING, with three different kinds of events and another personal record (PR) mixed in. I could enthrall you with my sublime and transcendent prose, but I'll be doing enough of that in November with my novel for NaNoWriMo. So I'll let the photos do (most of) the talking here. …
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New Novel and Nouveaux Chocolats
WELL, RATS. Today's weather was sunny and warm, with some fall color still out there to be seen, and I was stuck at home with some kind of bug. I could have gone for my Wednesday run with PR Fitness, but decided not to push it, with Aikido and the downtown Public Art Awareness Run …