2014 Marine Corp Marathon I’m walking the Mile 17 water stop trying to get enough fluid to keep my tongue from sticking to the roof of my mouth and coach passes me like a runaway train. I take off after him but I’m struggling to close. He’s running sub-8’s and I’m doing 7:20’s to catch …
Building stronger feet One of the things I realized in my long, ugly dance with Plantar Fasciitis is that my feet are weaklings. This was brought into stark relief this Sunday when I met Zack, more specifically when I met Zach’s gnarly feet. I had sent out an email blast to see if anyone wanted …
Crickets 4.0 Well, my long suffering friends, I recorded this to be part of episode 3-276, but alas it was too wordy, windy, expressive, effusive, elongated, loquacious, and of course long. So – you get it as an extra Crickets episode. Please – enjoy my Denver Rock and Roll Marathon race report. Music -> http://www.theslackers.com/ernestos …
In between races What do you do when you’re rolling off one training cycle and it’s not time yet to start the next training cycle? You want to stay fit but you also need to recover. How do you keep the weight off and still stay within striking distance of your next goal? This is …
On OKR’s The trend of Objectives and Key Results in an organization I’m currently finishing up John Doerr’s book “Measure What Matters” and learning about the current OKR wave. What are OKR’s and what is the history? How are OKR’s different or the same as traditional organizational goal setting? What are the potential challenges or …
