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April 9, 2008

Taking a break

health and fitness, running / 13 Comments

All right, I took everyone’s advice and did not work out. I’m not too happy about that, but you all expressed such concern that I feel like I have no choice but to do what you say. Thanks for being like my mom 🙂 Speaking of my mom, I hadn’t spoken to her much since Sunday, because I didn’t want to stress her out. Unfortunately, my brother called her to see how I was doing in the hospital, so that cat got out of the bag. She took the news pretty well and was relatively calm… I was impressed! However, …

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April 5, 2008

Quickie Race Report: Cooper River Bridge Run

running, travel / 6 Comments

Short version: the incline on the bridge was fine for me, but a big deal to everyone else. The temperature was fine for everyone else, but very hot and a big deal for me. Now I remember why I live in the north! In all seriousness though, Charleston is absolutely gorgeous, and I might actually like to live here. I crossed the finish line at 52:11, but I’m not sure how many seconds back I started. Definitely not many. I have to wait for the official results to see if I beat my PR of 52:04 – it will be …

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April 4, 2008

Sabotaging my Cooper River Bridge Run

running, travel / 4 Comments

Tomorrow is the Cooper River Bridge Run, which features a pretty steep climb over the bridge. The website says it’s a 4% incline, but they also show an elevation map that I used to calculate the following profile of the course, which doesn’t quite match up: -0.5% for 0.40 miles (0.4 miles total) 0.5% for 0.35 miles (0.75 miles total) 0.0% for 0.60 miles (1.35 miles total) 2.3% for 1.55 miles (2.90 miles total) 0.0% for 0.10 miles (3.00 miles total) -2.7% for 1.29 miles (4.29 miles total) 1.0% for 0.47 miles (4.76 miles total) 0.0% for 1.46 miles (6.22 …

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April 1, 2008

Okay, I’m caving

running / 2 Comments

After reading everyone’s fun April Fool’s posts (and getting tricked by a lot of them), I decided to join in the fun and post an actual April Fool’s post instead of just something amusing. However, one does have to do with running, and one does have to do with drinking, and I’m warning you in advance that it’s a joke. These actually come from a list of the Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time. The 26-Day Marathon: In 1981 the Daily Mail ran a story about an unfortunate Japanese long-distance runner, Kimo Nakajimi, who had entered the …

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April 1, 2008

Monday evening at the Westin check-in desk

running, travel / 4 Comments

Westin Reservation Clerk: “How was your weekend?” Me: “It was great; how was yours?” WRC: “Good! And how is the training going?” Me: “Oh, I’m not here for any training… I’m a consultant and my client is in Boston… that’s why I’m here.” WRC: “No, I know that. I mean how is training for the (Boston) Marathon going? Only a few weeks away!” Me: “Ummmm… really well. Yeah, I am all set for Boston. I did a 10 mile run yesterday.” WRC: “Wow, 10 miles!!! I can’t believe you can run that far!!!” …except that if I were actually running …

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