• Governance in club matters • [1½ MIN READ] A previous Rumination raised the issue of authority in determining the definition of a competitive marathon. I made light of it by naming myself the arbiter of the definition. I can get away with it because I’m the one using the term to quantify how many … More Long Live the Monarchy (#186: ZY Weekly Newsletter 3/29/25)
• Running isn’t the only challenge • [2 MIN READ] Philadelphia this past fall was my 25th marathon; competitive marathon, that is. What do I mean by “competitive,” particularly when 3 of them were not for myself (but to pace others)? It’s the question that I had to ask myself as I counted them up. … More The Marathon Definition Process (#185: ZY Weekly Newsletter 3/22/25)
• Training isn’t the only challenge • [1½ MIN READ] Here we are in another spring marathon season. This time it’s the Delaware (Running Festival) Marathon on Sunday, 4/6, just 2 weeks away. Expectations are…tempered. Those who pay attention to this-here thought piece, Ruminations, know that I don’t get motivated the way I did when … More The Marathon Selection Process (#184: ZY Weekly Newsletter 3/15/25)
• On non-billiard breaking • [½ MIN READ] (At the start of a January SRC run) -CtCloser (Calvinthe) “Negative Split or Positive Splat” #dothedue FINE PRINT ¶Text by Calvin Wang (Wäng), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. ¶Cross-published: Facebook Shawmont Running Club (ZY Weekly Newsletter 3/8/25), Shawmont Running Club website, Ruminations by CtCloser. ¶This website posting: Rumination only … More Two Balled in the Side Pockets (#183: ZY Weekly Newsletter 3/8/25)
• A way with words, too • [<½ MIN READ] (During a December neighborhood run, passing a parked car too close to the sideview mirror) -CtCloser (Calvinthe) “Negative Split or Positive Splat” #dothedue FINE PRINT ¶Text by Calvin Wang (Wäng), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. ¶Cross-published: Facebook Shawmont Running Club (ZY Weekly Newsletter 2/22/25), Shawmont Running Club … More Running Quiply: Thanks for Nothing (#182: ZY Weekly Newsletter 2/22/25)
• In reverse • [1½ MIN READ] Kudi [sic] to OKhen and Mango Marjo for their years of dedication to the Shawmont Running Club. I don’t even know how long it’s been, but as I write more runner Profiles, I’ll start publishing their (and others’) histories with the club and then we’ll both know. I … More Snowbirds (#181: ZY Weekly Newsletter 2/15/25)
• SRC Attendance and Mileage Stats • [1½ MIN READ] Count’em: 88 runners last year ran with the club! 47 of them ran Shawmont Avenue! Check it all out for yourself. Attendance Prizes: 1st place with 44 Saturdays to Teddio! 2nd place with 34 to AlsoKnownAs*! 3rd place with 32 to Quietman Tom! Close runner-ups! … More A Word on Numbers for 2024 (#180: ZY Weekly Newsletter 2/8/25)
• It is a thing • [1½ MIN READ] Talking at an SRC run is particularly rewarding because there’s a wide variety of folks to run with doing many different paces. The eponymous run goes up Shawmont Avenue for a conventional 14 miles. That means there are opportunities to have conversations with a variety of … More Running and Talking Compatibility (#179: ZY Weekly Newsletter 1/25/25)
• Who wants to claim the attention? • [½ MIN READ] I was pretty pleased to claim bragging rights for my soggy pre-New Year’s Shawmont effort, but that pleasure was premature. It seems Lakshmi, Linda B, and Sure Sheila were already up on the Orange Trail doing their workout when they looked down and saw … More Bragging Rights (#178: ZY Weekly Newsletter 1/18/25)
• The credit card, literally, but the effort, literarily • [1 MIN READ] The old Mastercard credit-card commercials got it right about the value of achieving. This piece is my perspective, though, on how the value accrues by an increase in every degree of appeal. In this case there’s a bunch of them. PHYSICAL SOCIAL … More Mastercard and the Hallmark Run (#177: ZY Weekly Newsletter 12/28/24)
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