By gcattarin on
3/8/2010 11:22 PM
Sunday was a milestone, the close of a full year since returning to running after the Big Slice foot surgery. A year is a long time to keep feeling like you’re working on a comeback. At some point you have to either get there, or change your destination. Sunday’s occasion was Stu’s 30K, and the result was that I’m pretty close to getting there.
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By gcattarin on
3/3/2010 11:35 PM
In what’s become an annual event for my club, but was a first for me, we spent the weekend on Cape Cod at the Hyannis Marathon and Relays. Hitting this event en masse as a club multiplied the fun, even when punctuated by the self-induced pain of some hard racing, and best of all we came home with a bunch of the coveted Quahogs!
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By gcattarin on
2/26/2010 6:03 PM
Really, any coach, any authority, any doctor would have said it was stupid. Even to myself, I’m convinced I’m a bit of a sick puppy. But it just happened, and it felt good, pretty much up to the last few miles, I’m tickled that it happened, and I survived. So, so what? I’m a bit crazy, ain’t I? Enjoy it.
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By gcattarin on
2/20/2010 11:03 AM
So far as the global environmental crisis goes, an early spring is rather concerning. So far as our mental states go, an early spring is exciting and invigorating. I’ve gone from a state of springing to a state of spring in the last few days, and to put it mildly, I’m pumped.
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By gcattarin on
2/8/2010 11:40 PM
You’ve got to take it when you can get it. Sometimes that means taking it even when it’s hard to get. On those occasions, sometimes you just get it, but sometimes you win the lottery and get more than you’d expected.
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By cyktrussell on
2/5/2010 1:42 PM
This week my theme has been abundance. Your life will improve drastically if you approach the world from a point of view that the universe is abundant. If you can rewire your thinking to come from a mindset of abundance you will attract health and success.
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By gcattarin on
2/4/2010 11:22 PM
Winter arrived a bit early in New England this year – nearly a foot of it in early December with more following soon after. But since then it’s been light going. No matter. Whenever the snows fall, I’m reminded of a wonderful memory – a summer memory – from those First Lap days, through an odd running leftover.
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By gcattarin on
1/29/2010 11:34 PM
This week I was faced with a good news / bad news scenario. Given that choice, I prefer to try to extract and enjoy the good news.
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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 gcattarin on
1/23/2010 9:21 PM
You’ve heard me rant on the power of running clubs. Here’s another dimension: they empower, too. Empowerment is a funny thing. It represents power that exists because you believe it does. In a way, it’s an angle on confidence.
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