Category: Running
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Unfinished business
I’m lying down on the road. All is well. I can stop now. There’s a moment of sweet surrender. All is well.
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Father to the man
No doubt I should have been learning more (or at least something) about the Phoenix Park murders, or rereading the turgid pages of Le Baiser au lépreux.
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Concerning inconsistency in the London and Boston Marathon qualifying times
Welcome to the unforgiving world of athletics age grading.
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run places
in my run places I’m lost in effort and pass through in seconds but later picture myself there and yearn to be back and when I cannot visit them I ache to be there
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Finish line
Negative thoughts swim in. When my Garmin reaches sixteen miles, my first thought is great, only ten more miles to go. But no, the official marker is still point one of a mile away. And the distance is 26.2, not 26. Somehow that 0.3 acquires a crushing weight in my…
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Running and Cheating: regarding Coe, Ovett and Savile
I’d like to believe that Coe and Ovett were clean: they were my heroes. And it’s not possible for them to prove the negative. But their statements do not dispel the doubt.
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