Workouts: 17 weeks until Bayshore! M: 8 mi easy @ 9:12/mi (60F / 87%, rainy) T: 12 x 400m. Started with 1.5 mi warmup (9:04/mi), then 12 x 400m intervals with 400m rest. It…
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1- I loved this post from Jenny: Our Best Days. Do YOU think your best days are up ahead, or behind? (I’m going with ahead, I feel like each decade has topped the prior…
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First up: I TURNED IN MY DRAFT!!! I wrote a (54K-word draft of) a book! Significant edits are up ahead (I know this for sure, as my editor has already sent me back a…
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Workouts: Last week of Pre-Training! Truthfully, there isn’t THAT much difference between pre-training and training but hey — the distinctions help mentally break things up! Next week I will start a modified version of…
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Workouts Pre-Training Ramp Up for Bayshore Round 2 From a running perspective, I’m in a basebuilding phase after taking it relatively easy for a few weeks after JAX! I feel like I got the…
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First: Favorites of 2024 I kept track of my reading on paper this year and not electronically; I’ll bring back a books page for 2025, promies! Reviewing my list, I only commented “loved!” next…
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Okay, it’s not like I didn’t read ANYTHING this year. According to my records, I finished 40 books so far in 2024. The thing is that I have read only 8 books in the…
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Not going to lie, I almost just wrote “I will see you in October” but I don’t think that’s necessarily good for me. Again sorry for the lack of specifics, but metaphorically, I feel…
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Near-death experiences I am reading about near-death experiences in You Only Die Once. I am trying to decide whether my own near-death experience ~9 months ago has had a profound impact on my mindset/attitudes/thinking.…
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Higher Mileage Week It was hot this week. Well — truthfully there is not much variation here in weather over the summer. I guess that’s SORT of a good thing – we’re unlikely to…