Aug
16
Proprioception “Proprioception” is your body’s ability to sense changes, particularly in your state of balance, and adjust to them. In previous blog entries, I’ve rambled on about words that leapt to mind as I ran. Usually, these words come seemingly from out of nowhere and often I’m not even sure what they mean at the …
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Aug
15
In a pivotal moment of the OJ Simpson trial, the late Johnny Cochran famously proclaimed, “If the gloves don’t fit, you must acquit.” Allow me to be one more in a long line of knockoffs from that line when I say, “If the pants don’t fit, I must not quit.” I, the accused, stand …
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Aug
14
It happened again. Yesterday, while I was enjoying a quiet, stress-busting vacation run through a Wisconsin state park, a minivan pulled up beside me: “Excuse me, sir, do you know how to get to campground #13?” I’ve written before about being perceived as a human GPS, and while I was full of bluster …
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4.8 mi
00:37 /07:36 pace
Just a little fartlek to shake out my legs. They've been pretty stiff since Tuesday's easy 9.5 miler, which came after a 10-day layoff I... posted 13 days ago
