welcome to the 6th edition of the carnival of running this veterans day many running bloggers took the time out to thank veterans for their service. id like to echo those thanks and as a veteran myself say youre welcome america wrapping up details from previous weeks events we have universal sports with ondemand video of the entire new york city mara......
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welcome to the 5th edition of the carnival of running everyone wants to talk about the election and isnt it too bad that nitmos who promised to abolish fig newtons at a race finish line didnt win but were still cleaning up the mess left over from halloween. first theres this great old nike halloweenthemed running ad rw daily ......
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this is my mailbox. it was in a lot of pictures this weekend and seriously joe i get it we will wash the mailbox stop with the pictures. even if you cant understand why i run pain torture asthma you can probably grasp why i love the finish line. the finish line it is such a glorious place. you are finished no more running. i get a little choked up re cry like a......
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mondays sick took hold and stayed. bleh. in other news i think im roped into doing the mooseman tri not sure if olympic or half in june with hip a provided i survive this winter. the interesting bit is that ill do the nyc marathon next fall so i think i have two large training goals for 09 already. which is liberating and a pain all at the same......
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man its been a good month. new haven of course was 6 hours of perfection encapsulating everything that makes new england summer enough to get through winter. then and im terribly terribly lax i spent the better part of 4 great days in ottawa. got to run with warren again. scratch that wed biked together before so we got to run together for the first time. there......
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last weekend after blogher was all over i met up with two california rbfs. mia was one of the first running blogs i ever read we trained through birth and after births together. i found juls blog through jeff havent we all found someone through him. her posts touched my heart and i read for awhile before i realized what a freaking running goddess she was. but ......
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ill be attending blogher this saturday yes i know the conference starts friday talk to my social planner she was obviously drunk or crazy or drunk and crazy when she made my travel plans arriving in the city by the bay late friday morning for a conference that starts early friday morning. by arriving friday morning i will be missing marilyns panel which is a bummer because h......
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mission accomplished. its been a little less than a year since jeff approached me to make a quilt for his son out of some of his old race jerseys. he did a lot of work himself although i hear he hired out some o fit to smsmh or she beat him into submission or something cutting up his shirts and sending them to me. and i was totally honored to make this particular memory for......
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working title were having a heatwave. it is darn warm here in the pacific northwest. uncomfortable so for those of us without ac seriously you need it like two days out of the year here and so weve been forced to breakout the tent. our summer home as it were. moos maiden voyage sleeping in the yard by himself its only 830 well be joining ......
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i finished up capt. crankypants birthday gift on saturday in time for his mom to pick it up while dropping off some fabric at my house that she is getting rid of. because what i need is more fabric. speaking of which have you seen the kaufman amy schimler critters and creatures line hello snails and turtles i think i need some. i may have to run to fabric depot as i......
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moi tagged me. here is the history on the tag its very interesting and appropriately moi literary the sixwords meme was originally started by smith magazine . legend has it that hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. his response for sale baby shoes never worn. last year smith magazine reignited the recountre by asking our readers for their ow......
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as bon jovi would say ohhhh were halfway there. ohhhoh livin on a prayer this week fortunately ended on a much better note than it started. however i believe what transpired needed to happen to help me gain perspective. sidelined with a sore calf i moped around the house on sunday. im not going to hit 200 miles this month i sni......
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here is a picture of some of the feral parrots who flock in san francisco. they were so consumed with destroying the cherry trees in the park that i was able to get right up close to them and take pictures without losing a finger. pretty cool huh here also is a very quick post in which i tell you all about stupid things that people do when they go on vacation... ...like neglect to register for.....
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today completed week two of the training plan. i logged 38 miles again picking up the extra two running with our beginner group. now its on to taper. except...w ere doing a fun pointtopoint tomorrow morning and its 7.5 miles so ill be a little over my planned five. im sure it will be fine. i found a couple pairs of asics 2120s online theyve already arri......
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...nd my cell phone had been left behind. no biggie. i mostly call bobo on my way home from work but his cell was dead with a charger that has gone awol. remotely i turned on my extended absenc www.breaki ngthetape. com review marne davis kellogg tramp. marne davis kellogg tramp. bantam paperback reprint october 1998. hardcover first edition doubleday 1997. this is the third of w...
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keeping pace placed an interesting blog post on sunday slothfulness heres a brief overview the weather is too lovely to stay inside all day.a yet here i am in bed still.a it isnt that i am tired i slept pretty well actually.a i am just being lazy like a sloth.a i am not ready to face another daynot yet. thankfully it is sunday a day of rest.a church if......
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i bottled the ipa at the end of august after tossing an ounce of amarillo hops into the secondary to dryhop it. it was all bitterness and i wanted to round out the flavor. two weeks after i bottled i was heading to michigan for an offroad relay race . i figured id bring some of my homebrew guessed the ipa was ready and packed a sixer of that as well as a six of the hef......
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101 cookbooks 52 cupcakes 80 breakfasts a cat in the kitchen a hunger artist a veggie venture accidental hedonist all things edible alpineberry amateur gourmet the an obsession with food annes food applemint bake destroy bake or break baking bites former bakingsheet becks posh bellytimber brown bag blues brownie points canadian baker the ......
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classes are over yay and im supposed to be writing the remaining eight pages of my final final 16page paper for this semester so i thought it was time for an update instead. i totally halfassed my presentation i gave last week but thats okay because the instructor wasnt paying attention anyway. i know because i watched her grade papers during my presentation. it......
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