The Preface I had a lot of self-doubt when I transitioned to trail running primarily following the accidental broken ankle of 2015, and for a long time thereafter. Even once I started doing regular 10+ mile Saturday runs at SFRC I felt like I wasn’t cut out for it. I would get out there week in […]
Ok, so for a while I’ve been wanting to add some shoes to my collection. Haha, well my running tool belt actually only currently contains a “collection” of two shoes, my VFFs and my Nike Free Hyperfeels, which I use about once a week. I want to add a shoe with a bit of cushion
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No, I don’t mean hydration. I mean draaanking drinking. Like alcoholic beverages. I’ve found in the past year or two as I have become more “serious” as a runner, I have all but stopped drinking. I’m sure part of it began as college wound down and I lost interest in drinking just for the sake
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Not that I ever really left….I’ve just been inexcusably absent. So, in an effort to motive myself and hold myself a bit more accountable, I’ve created an Instagram account to compliment this blog. Or maybe this blog will become a compliment to the Instagram, who knows! Go check out therunetarian on Instagram! What are you
I’m back, with an Instagram! Read More »
I know it’s been many weeks since my last post, and I apologize. But, I have many excuses for you! There have been some non-running reasons such as finals, graduating college, moving back to California, and of course, being unemployed. You know, life transitions. There is also the fact the my laptop keyboard no longer
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This morning I was engorged in Runner’s World and reading about the elites’ finish at the Boston Marathon. Now Marathon Monday is being looked at in a whole new light, one of tragedy. Whoever the hell did this can’t be a human being. While it is true, I have little faith in humanity, I simply
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I have recently read a book by Yi-Fu Tuan for my Cultural Geography class titled Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Our class discussion had me thinking a lot about how I define, explore, and experience space through my running. The book covered the relationship of space and place in many ways, such as how
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I don’t know what week of training I am in now but today was set for an 8 mile run. I have only run 8 miles (approximately) once before, and that was last May in Panama. Despite the pain and thus running setback I endured for weeks after, that was either my favorite or most
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On Thursday I went a similar route as Tuesday’s run, and the route I had originally set out to do for last Saturday’s long run. This took me gradually but struggling uphill into Royal Westmoreland Golf Course. I logged 4.3 miles and got some wonderful rash on my right leg that stung me periodically throughout
Thursday: Barbados Run #5 (Vacation’s almost over!) Read More »
Yesterday saw a half mile increase in the usual Tuesday run. As the half marathon training is progressing so is the mileage; Tuesdays are now for 3.5 mile runs. I hit the road again in the morning, after postponing my run for almost an hour because there was some intermittent down-pouring. The run itself was
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