Tagged (Seven Things About Me)

I admit, I’ve been a bad, bad blogger, baby. Both my personal and work life’s been crazy for a few weeks now. (For instance, from Monday and Thursday last week, I averaged leaving the office at 11 p.m. and I worked from home from 12:30 a.m. until 3. Ugh!) Below the fold you can learn [...]

Shifting Gears

Last night, I depressed the clutch of a standard car for the first time ever. Coming home from an errand, a friend pull into a church parking lot rather than in front of my house to park. Although she’d said nothing about teaching me to drive stick, I knew when she parked the car that [...]

Propriocepticons

“Alex, what are robots with proprioception?” This article reminds me of a chat about proprioception I had with teammate/clubmate Greg Loomis over the winter. Ok, so our talk in no way involved robots, but it stuck with me nonetheless. I think it’s that they’re using proprioception’s local sensor/local neural loop model to avoid the complexity [...]

Higher and Higher

I forgot to mention one aspect of my workout last night – my runner’s high DURING the workout. While I’ve had many runner’s highs over the years, I cannot recall ever having had one during a workout. After 6 miles or so, I was not my normal self. I wold find myself looking around, staring [...]

Gaps in Time

Lots to catch up on in the near future, such as why I didn’t finish the Bull Run Run 50 miler, my current training, changes in race plans, and the new home. For now all you’ll get is that: (1) The Friday before Bull Run I decided that I wouldn’t go the full way because [...]

Change in Race Plans (that's one way to put it)

The other way to put it is – I’m buying a house. I put in an offer on a single family home two doors down from where I live in the Ballston neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia. The house is a real fixer upper, but the local and price can’t be beat. I close on the [...]

Rumblings

While I’ve gone through some dry spells in posting, I think I’ve been pretty consistent for a while now. I’ve also been pretty good about sticking to running. However, in the near future, I may fail a bit on both fronts. I have no news yet to report, but check back in the next few [...]

Head Banging

Sometimes I’m awfully dumb. I might as well be banging my head against the wall for all I learn from some of my mistakes. You see, I’ve had uncomfortably congested lungs since Wednesday and while I did take a day and half off from work, I didn’t take anything that would help the problem. I [...]

Defunkification?

I’ve been heeding recommendations of y’all and the advice I would normally give others and have taken the past 3 days off completely. Yesterday, I wanted to run, but took another day off just I would when coming back from a 100. Today, I feel like running up and down the halls. After work I’ll [...]

Who's Got the Funk?

I’ve got the funk…. or at least I’m in one. I’m in a running funk and I risk falling into a personal funk. This isn’t the first time I’ve fallen into a running funk and it won’t be the last. Now I’ve got to figure out why I’m in it and a way out. The [...]

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