Boston Marathon Recap, Diet and Injury Notes, Next Steps
It’s been a few weeks since Boston, and after whacking the race video footage I shot with my friend Bob’s Google Glass into a 15-minute course video, I’ve been working, traveling, taking the kids to...
View ArticleIt’s All About My Race, Not The Race: Do Runners Care Who Wins?
Distance running is wonderful sport in part because the races are so egalitarian: the back-of-the-packers are literally competing in the same event as the world champions. You pay your fee, enter the...
View ArticleDo You Need Carbs To Run Fast? Concluding The Experiment, Sort Of
Common wisdom says you need copious amounts of carbohydrate to run your best, but who doesn’t love challenging common wisdom once in a while? After reading the Art & Science of Low Carbohydrate...
View ArticleThe End of a Streak; Belated Manchester *HALF* Marathon Race And Season Notes
It’s fitting that I’m getting around to jotting a few notes on this race almost a week after the fact. The whole thing ended up being a bit nonchalant, given it was my main race of the season and the...
View ArticleWhy singing is good for you, even if you think you’re bad at it
Apologies to our neighbors, but all that singing is medicinal. I can’t begin to count the number of people over the years who’ve told me they can’t sing, or have no talent for musical instruments....
View ArticleJerome and Treadmill: A Modern Victorian Yuletide Horror
As Christmas Eve approaches, I’m republishing here a tale from last year about distance running, monsters, debt, and self-sacrifice. For those of you who run around New Hampshire and think there’s...
View ArticleA Game of Roads: A Song of Ice And Runners
How routes get chosen for a group run, and what happens when they don’t. It’s 7:45 on a crisp, sunny, 15 degree January morning in New Hampshire. There are about a dozen middle aged men in black...
View ArticleOld Man Getting Inked
If you have not picked up your June 2016 copy of New Hampshire Magazine yet, I urge you to do so. Beyond all the other great stuff in there, I’ve got a piece on getting a tattoo. That’s right....
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