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 …
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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 AnnArbor.com Post: BforArt! Public Art Appreciation Run this Thursday
POP QUIZ: Which famous piece of Ann Arbor public art can be rotated by hand? Right you are! Now, name a second piece of public art in our town. Stuck? Okay, "that orange steel thing outside the Art Museum" gets you partial credit. Do you know its real name and who its sculptor is? (I …
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Turkey Trotting, Free Fotos, and Donating Duds
The PR Fitness group run was smaller than usual today. Many of our regulars are running one of the big marathons this weekend - Detroit, Grand Rapids, or Columbus. I joined a group training for the "Iron Turkey" (5K followed by 10K) at the upcoming Ann Arbor Turkey Trot. We ran the Border-to-Border Trail along …
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