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How professional athletes deal with career ending injuries What happens to those thousands of athletes who are at the top of their sport and suffer a career-ending injury? What can we learn from it? I was drawn to this topic over the last few weeks by a malevolent pincer movement of two angry forces. The …
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My version of the Ayer Fire Dept. 5K on Thanksgiving Morning 2011
We need to help create more runners To help – we need to be prepared. It’s time that the running community banded together to do some good. How? We are in a unique position to positively affect many of the ills that currently affect our society. We can take up the banner quite easily and, …
Rest your weary soul A sojourn in the gray land of effort/not-effort Walking down the carpeted halls of my office I break into a bouncy trot. I lavishly feel the twitching strength in my calves and thighs. I feel like a physical coiled spring, an athlete. This is the training effect. It is the end …
Race report Boston 2015 Marching through the hills powered by smiles “You’re running the Boston Marathon!” I implored the woman I was passing adding a smile. “You’re on Heartbreak Hill!” I continued. “Come on! Cheer up!” And that was my race once I got through a rough patch around 20k in. I just set my …
