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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.

Scene of the Crime

By gcattarin on 12/9/2009 11:37 PM

I’ve told the story hundreds of times, maybe more. I’ve referred so many people to the famed blog posting, “Paying the Price at Wineglass” that the bits on the disks where it is stored on that anonymous blog server in the sky are worn out. But I’ve always wondered, what really happened? So given the opportunity, I went back to check it out.

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Infecting Your Family

By gcattarin on 12/3/2009 11:30 PM

What will any of us leave behind, beside a trail of debris and greenhouse gasses? Can we each put a little positive nudge into the world? Thanksgiving morning made it seem that way. It would appear I’ve contributed to the infection my family, and happily, not with H1N1.

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Unexpected Gifts

By gcattarin on 11/27/2009 10:43 PM

My family, like millions of others, gathered around obscene piles of calories yesterday to pay note to, but not truly appreciate, the overabundance that surrounds us. I, like millions of other runners, knew that meant but one thing: I’d better get out there the next morning and burn it off. And with that came the best kind of gift, the unexpected one.

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Is it or Isn’t It?

By gcattarin on 11/22/2009 10:13 PM

Dr. Cattarin reporting, here. I gave in and went to a real doctor, and the outcome was exactly as I expected: inconclusive. So now I ponder, is it or isn’t it busted, and how, and how long till it’s fixed? Remember “What About Bob?” It’s time for baby steps, baby steps…

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Calling Dr. Cattarin!

By gcattarin on 11/11/2009 11:50 PM

I’m not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV. (If you don’t get that reference, you’re not a masters division runner.) But here we go again, back on the injury train, and back in that agonizing mode of deciding whether to play doctor or use a real one.

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Quiet Week After the XC Big Finale

By gcattarin on 11/6/2009 11:34 PM

It’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon. Sadly, my mileage total for the week is a virtually non-existent one mile. And I admit, I didn’t even measure that, so it might have been short. And I didn’t even pen a blog posting. But a down week now and then isn’t a bad thing, a cool down, since it came after a big one.

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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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