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Author:	gcattarin	Created:	12/6/2008 6:05 PM
Gary's Blog - Adventures and reflections of a middle-aged runner doing this for the second time in his life.

MDI Race Report: Ashes Over Rust

By gcattarin on 10/22/2009 7:04 PM

I’m leaning on Neil Young for a theme for this race. Hey, hey, my, my. It’s better to burn out than it is to rust. I came, I went out hard, I burned out, but that’s pretty much what I intended (say what? read on…), and I’m happy with the results. And with that, the Marathon #10, the Mount Desert Island Marathon, is in the books.

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MDI Flash!

By gcattarin on 10/18/2009 1:07 PM

A quick report from the front, after the battle. The full report will follow.

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MDI Race Eve and Still Flummoxed!

By gcattarin on 10/17/2009 7:00 PM

Today was a picture perfect day on Mount Desert Island, Maine. Trouble is, the race wasn’t today, it’s tomorrow. And picture perfect tomorrow will most certainly not be. Whatever will I wear to the ball?

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Really Bad Timing

By gcattarin on 10/14/2009 11:10 PM

This is not good. It’s Wednesday, a mere four days to the Mount Desert Island Marathon, and I’m sitting here at my home office desk with a heating pad on my right calf. I know it’s the week to taper down my training, but this is not what I had in mind.

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Industrial Arts

By gcattarin on 10/9/2009 10:56 PM

Two Saturdays ago I held my own Industrial Arts class, playing with nasty chemicals and common building materials. And what fun we’ve had with the results! A mere thirty nine dollars and seven cents procured a few lengths of PVC pipe, a pile of various connector bits, a can of nasty glue, and some orange safety tape, and with that, we’ve already classed up four races within ten days.

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Heck of a Week, Heck of a Month

By gcattarin on 9/30/2009 11:01 PM

Thirty days ago the world looked dreary. Today, well, face it, it still does. Earthquakes! Tsunamis! Roman Polanski! But, the heck with the world. At least so far as my running and fitness level, thirty days has made a surprising difference. It’s been a heck of a month. Read More »

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Something Clicked

By gcattarin on 9/21/2009 10:58 PM

The human body is amazing. It takes a while to happen, but when your metabolic level decides it’s ready to shift, it shifts. Just like that. Click. For me, something clicked in the last two weeks.

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That Pesky Butterfly

By gcattarin on 9/12/2009 10:14 PM

Somewhere a butterfly flaps its wings, next thing you know, Hoover Dam comes crashing down, or something like that. Or so goes the famed butterfly effect theory. That butterfly flapped, and once again prevented me from winning a race today.

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Nix the Zone

By gcattarin on 9/7/2009 11:10 PM

The comfort zone is a wonderful place, if it’s the place you want to be. If not, nix the zone. Getting out of it, and getting to another place, works wonders on the head, even if the body protests in the short term.

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Fall Race Quandary?

By gcattarin on 9/1/2009 1:00 AM

It’s mere weeks till marathon season, and I’m just not there yet. August has been a somewhat cruel month. The body isn’t happy. I probably shouldn’t. But somehow I just can’t resist the fun.

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