• 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)
• With the Blue Belles contingent • [<1 MIN READ] While KayCee and the Blue Belles run with us Wissahickon club members regularly enough, I don’t always get to catch up with them the way I’d like. That plus liking to shake up the running routine means that joining the, in their Blue Bell environs … More The Spirit of Social Embrace (#176: ZY Weekly Newsletter 12/21/24)
• Not who I’d like to think • [1 MIN READ] A little conversation during a past run got Quietman Tom quipping to me, “You’re smarter than you look.” What was harsh had very little to do with the specifics of the conversation; rather, it was the way circumstances next unfolded to put that good-naturedly … More Smart Guy (#175: ZY Weekly Newsletter 12/14/24)
• World and local • [1½ MIN READ] Many of us SRC runners pay close attention to big marathon events and we know the range of paces that winners of those marathons produce. So, one particular video caught my attention after Eliud Kipchoge’s 2018 Berlin Marathon world record of 2:01:39. Runner’s World produced this 2019 … More Pacing with Some Greats (#174: ZY Weekly Newsletter 11/30/24)
• Ill-advised isn’t stopping me • [2 MIN READ] Kind of like for my unparalleled 3-race spring this year, fall has had a little of its own nuttiness in the form of a couple of not-originally-planned races (including the Rocky Run 10MI on 11’09’S). Spring was a function of my social-running mentality that made me … More Marathon Training Long-run Distances Relative to Weekly (#173: ZY Weekly Newsletter 11/16/24)
• Nicknames 2.0 • [2 MIN READ] One thing I’ve learned both from editing for the Facebook group and ShawmontRunningClub.com and from talking about trail tags with club members is that not everyone likes them. WHAT? I guess I never woulda thunk it. When I say not everyone likes them, I don’t mean they don’t … More Trailtagging III (#172: ZY Weekly Newsletter 11/9/24)
• That’s what it is and I’m sticking to it • [1 MIN READ] Being the compulsive sort that I am, round numbers have always been important. For that reason, I’m going to stop short of the end of a run or add on to it to get the final number to the nearest full … More Altered States: Distances (#171: ZY Weekly Newsletter 11/2/24)
• More rewards of running with SRC • [1½ MIN READ] SRC attendance numbers have been swelling with the onset of fall racing season. Ask around and you’ll find Harrisburg (11’10’U), Philadelphia (11’24’U), Rehoboth Beach (12’07’S), and even Honolulu (12’08’U) Marathons in the mix. A bunch of Shawmont runners also do Rehoboth Beach Half Marathon … More Run Report: End of the Road Half Marathon (#170: ZY Weekly Newsletter 10/19/24)
• Thoughts on an article • [1 MIN READ] What I’ve always loved about running is that there are really very few equipment needs—except for one thing: running shoes. Here’s a New York Times article about that very thing: What You Do (and Don’t) Need in a Running Shoe. You can agree or not about … More Running Paraphernalia: Shoes (#169: ZY Weekly Newsletter 10/5/24)
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