By cyktrussell on
1/24/2010 9:49 PM
When I was sitting in a Dutch pub last night, eating dinner, the ambient music piped in for our pleasure was disco. It seemed a bit jarring and dissonant to my settings. Disco is alive and well in Holland. Alive to me with all its sweaty, hairy, ebullient escapism.
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By cyktrussell on
1/9/2010 1:14 AM
Good luck to all you winter marathoners. I want to leave you with something to with something to think about when you hit the wall. This is your mantra. The warrior is within you. The warrior is within you. The warrior is within you.
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By cyktrussell on
12/31/2009 1:59 PM
Sometimes all we really need is perspective.
This is a true story about how a couple of women I’ve never met changed my thought patterns one afternoon. I think you’ll find it interesting and maybe take a lesson from it for your own life.
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By cyktrussell on
11/10/2009 6:10 PM
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By cyktrussell on
9/13/2009 10:03 AM
The Ragnar New England Overnight Relay
Summary: I and 5 other virtual friends took on the first running of the Ragnar New England this weekend.
We ran around 200 miles from New Haven, CT to Boston, MA. It took us 27+ hours. We ran an “Ultra” team – that is we ran a course meant for a 12-person team with 6 people.
We pulled the team together virtually through the social networking tool Twitter and got Brooks Running to sponsor us with equipment and shoes. (so none of us really ever me
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By cyktrussell on
8/28/2009 4:08 PM
What is it that separates those of us who love running?
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By cyktrussell on
5/31/2009 6:33 PM
I was asked by Vibram to take a pair of Patagonia Release shoes for a test and share my feedback. I took these shoes for a 17 mile trail run through single path, gravel road, rocks, roots, leaves, pine needles, mud and grass. They are a substantial trail shoe and they performed well. I had no issues with them and could see using them in an ultra. Good, sturdy, solid shoes. This seems to be the type of shoe you would get if a hiking boot company decided to make a running shoe!
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By cyktrussell on
5/11/2009 7:27 PM
By cyktrussell on
5/1/2009 10:49 PM
Just use the template…
Somewhere in the first half of the race this year I joked to the guy next to me; “I should just create a template for my Boston Race Reports, because every year it’s the same story…I get caught up in the crowd, go out too fast, fade on the hills and struggle in…”
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By cyktrussell on
4/13/2009 1:08 PM
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