Taking a Knee (Or Several)

One week ago I was somewhere in Pennsylvania, driving to New York for a trail race, when I flipped on the radio and these were the first words I heard. (Yes, really.) Long distance runner, what you standin' there for?Get up, get out, get out of the door. Okay, who am I to argue with …

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Getting Back At It

YOU KNOW YOU'RE HOPELESS when you’ve just finished a long run or bike ride on a beautiful day, you’re heading home with your well-deserved coffee and pastry, you see someone running, and you think to yourself, “I could be doing that right now.” Never had that happen, you say? Consider yourself fortunate. Me? I experience …

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Remembering Michael

AS IF I NEEDED another reminder of the ephemeral nature of human life, I got one this week. My friend Michael Parker, runner, trainer, and all around good guy, passed away a few days ago from cancer. The same cancer that ended the life of my wife in June. The news hit me pretty hard …

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My Lame Excuse

The only thing worse than running is not running. - Walter Rhein As a blogger, sometimes one goes long stretches without posting, and one lesson I’d been taught early on is not to apologize for that. For there are occasionally more important things to do than sit at a computer and spit out 800 words …

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