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Running My First Half-Marathon
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Running My First Half-Marathon

After 13 miles of running, my 6-year old drives a toy car on me. He may be trying to tell me something. We all know Murphy's Law. And it has several corollaries. I learned one during training for the Half. Call it Jay's Corollary: If you are going to…
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The 53 x 400 Meter Nonrelay

Part 2 of My First Half-Marathon (Read Part 1: A Man Can Outrun a Horse in a Race) Okay, so I’ve already gone over how my (probably irrational) contempt of horses is a motivator for me to run distance events with this non-distance running body. We ma…
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A Man Can Outrun a Horse in a Race
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A Man Can Outrun a Horse in a Race

I suck at distance running. I won’t say I don’t enjoy it. I do. Running along single tracks through the hilly forests and open fields that surround my Oregon community is pleasurable. (For about a half-hour, especially.) But everything is relative. I…
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