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• Even the least of the Olympians • [1½ MIN READ] You have your own Paris Olympics highlights, I’m sure; some we SRC-ers compared early notes about. It’s not really weird how many of mine hover around the female athletes, given that a record percentage competed this year, 48%, that for Team USA was 53%. At the … More Gods Among Us (#165: ZY Weekly Newsletter 8/10/24)
• Better with the heat and humidity all the time • [1½ MIN READ] I hadn’t been getting accustomed to the heat. But I had an excuse. The heat has been exceptional, no doubt. The last full week of July saw the 4 hottest days [free access with registration] ever scientifically recorded. That fact comes … More Getting Better (#164: ZY Weekly Newsletter 7/27/24)
• Leaving You for Another • [2 MIN READ] The New York Times strikes again with a story for the ages about the latest, greatest running shoe. This one, I have to have. But first, NYT. I love it because its editors love a good story about running. Second, it breaks cutting-edge news. Third, it … More This Is It (#163: ZY Weekly Newsletter 7/20/24)
• Everyone needs a break sometimes • [1 MIN READ] As a past religious reader of the daily newspaper comics, I was shocked the first time I saw a cartoonist take a creative break. The comic was Doonesbury and the cartoonist was Garry Trudeau. I was in college at the time and it never occurred … More Hiatuses (#162: ZY Weekly Newsletter 6/29/24)
• Not likely to do it again • [1½ MIN READ] In an unparalleled effort for this Shawmonter, I ran 2 marathons in 2 weeks this past April. Social runner that I’ve become, I got sucked and suckered in by multiple competitors who wanted company both while training and racing. I didn’t PR or Boston … More A Productive Month (#161: ZY Weekly Newsletter 6/22/24)
• One issue serving the interests of others • [2 MIN READ] One of my several tag lines is this: “Unless you’re trying to be offensive, I don’t usually take offense.” Sadly, I will admit that some people have been offensive and I have taken offense. There are many ways we make generalizations about people … More Sensitive Matters (#258: 2024’05’22’W)
• The usual taper effort • [<1 MIN READ] This marathon-training cycle has been unusual for me (04’14’U: Jersey City Marathon). The biggest part of “unusual” is that I’ve had 20-mile-range runs in my back pocket for 4 months beginning November: 2 18-22’s per each. As far as distance conditioning is concerned—even with a standard … More The End of an Unusual Training Cycle (#157: ZY Weekly Newsletter 3/30/24)
• Clarkson as applied to race training • [2 MIN READ] Speaking of race-training motivation as I was last week (CER#246), this whole Jersey City Marathon (04’14’U) came up because Growler-expat Cait has been wanting to qualify for Boston Marathon. Well that was motivation enough for me to join her. The other close-in-time marathons and … More Kelly or Be Killed (#247: 2024’03’06’W)
• Audibly, if not socially • [<1 MIN READ] Hanging out after the weekly run, with a little alcohol in the veins, I spilled my guts about receiving a diagnosis of adult ADHD within the previous few days. It’s something I’d suspected because of anger issues (I know! I’m such an even-keeled guy! Not rly, … More GGR is Consistently about Community (#244: 2024’02’14’W)
• Does that make me strange? • [1 MIN READ] The default distance for Shawmont Running Club is the 14-mile loop going down Forbidden Drive, then west on Main Street and the Canal Path, and finally up Shawmont Avenue to return back to the start by any number of ways. Anyone can (and many do) … More Thankful for Shawmont 14-Mile Runs (#142: ZY Weekly Newsletter 11/18/23)
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