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Odds and Ends

Learning from Mistakes

March 7, 2010

I’m back.
It’s been a while since my last post so a brief explanation is in order.  I started Running Buddy with the goal of the site becoming a resource for all things running, and I had big plans for it.  I still do.  But I made some mistakes getting started that I’m now thankful I [...]

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What’s It Like to Run 50 Miles?

December 13, 2009

Well, honestly, I don’t know yet.  But Edie over at the Trail Run Times has a great recap of last week’s 50-mile race during the North Face Endurance Challenge, which I wrote about earlier last week.
She has her date wrong (hey, if you had just run 50 miles you’d get your weeks mixed up as [...]

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Some Thoughts on Tiger Woods, and Other Idols

December 10, 2009

For many obvious reasons, Tiger Woods is all over the news right now.  What is unfortunate, I think, is that the salacious nature of the unfolding story is masking a broader lesson here that few people are bothering to consider.
One of the dangers of putting all of your hopes and dreams into the hands of [...]

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What I’m Missing

December 6, 2009

In a handful of my posts thus far I’ve alluded to the Marin Headlands, the amazingly beautiful stretch of hills and mountains jutting out at the southern tip of Marin County separating San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean.  If you’ve seen any of the gazillions of photos of the Golden Gate Bridge, the jagged [...]

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