By cyktrussell on
1/29/2009 10:51 PM
An awesome Derry 16 miler in 2009
My legs are pretty sore still here and it’s Tuesday. I got my money’s worth out of the 2009 running of the Derry 16 Miler. One of my more annoying mannerisms is to recite excerpts from Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade”. It seems fitting at mile 10 when we hurl our old tired bodies at that monster of a hill that makes Derry a special race.
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By gcattarin on
1/18/2009 11:00 PM
It was like Groundhog Day come early. Six more weeks, he announced. Only it had nothing to do with the weather or the seasons, it simply meant I’m about six weeks away from being deemed healed. Meanwhile, I’ve been granted the sweet freedom of mobility.
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By cyktrussell on
1/18/2009 6:57 PM
I’ll spoil the suspense for you; they worked awesome for me and I’ll tell you about it. I got the perfect storm, so to speak, of new toys and awful weather. Couldn’t ask for better weather to test out traction devices in.
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By gcattarin on
1/11/2009 11:00 PM
Hard corners feel good. Take that exit ramp a few MPH faster than the recommended speed and feel the rubber bite (even on my rusty old rice-burner). Yeah… Make that final course turn in a hot sprint and put the finish line in sight. Sweet… Yes, hard corners feel good. And I took one this weekend. Very sweet, indeed.
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By yvettef on
1/10/2009 8:58 AM
I probably did less running in December than any other months in the past 10 years combined. Yes...I did at least 1,000,000 miles of not running. I'm probably more prepared and in better shape not to run than I have ever been in my life....
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By yvettef on
1/10/2009 8:51 AM
I don't know about the rest of you, but Winter and I are not friends. I do not like his dark frigidity and the way he blows in my face. How rude! Just to show him he cannot intimidate me, I sign up for a race every January. In the past these have been races in places which are a bit nicer than Colorado Winter... Like Florida Winter or Arizona Winter. But this morning, I'm running a local race...the Lafayette Oatmeal Festival's Quicker Quaker 5K.
Besides the need to show Winter that I'm tough, the other reason I sign up for a January race is to keep me motivated to run over the holiday season and to start the New Year with renewed energy and fresh resolve to run faster, longer, harder! This year it didn't work. Something about a 5K being shorter than my typical training run, just has n
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By cyktrussell on
1/9/2009 5:24 PM
Metaphor? Adventure? Cry for attention?
What makes people jump into the ocean on January 1st? From what I see on the face book pages and blogs this is an around the world mania.
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By Anthony on
1/6/2009 11:12 PM
Synergy
“A dynamic state in which combined action is favored over the sum of individual component actions”
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By gcattarin on
1/2/2009 11:00 PM
It’s easy to be down right now. I’m not running. Indeed, I’m still on crutches. I still don’t know if my toe will work again. The economy is in the dumps. My own employer is teetering on quarter-a-share stock (down from, uh, you don’t want to know…). It’s ugly everywhere. But it’s time to celebrate, and not just because W is history and I don’t have a sub-prime mortgage.&a
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