When it comes to races, marathons are truly a different beast than any other distance I have run, both mentally and physically. We spend months training and obsessing about marathon strategy, but unfortunately sometimes things don’t go our way on race day, which can lead to disappointment. Yesterday I ran the 2009 ING Hartford Marathon […]
Why My Fall Marathons Probably Won’t Earn Me a Trip to Boston in 2010
September 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Let me start this post by stating the obvious – I am passionate about distance running. There are few things in life that I enjoy more than being out on the road or trail and feeling the steady beat of my footsteps underneath me. Like many passionate distance runners, I also take pride in my […]
A Memorable Week of Running
August 31, 2009 By 2 Comments
We runner’s often like to say that our sport is one of distinct ups and downs. Some days/weeks it’s all you can do to force yourself out the door, others it’s all you can do to hold yourself back from running yourself into the ground because you feel so darn good. For me, this past […]
4 and 40: Deriving Motivation from Meaningless Numbers
August 10, 2009 By 1 Comment
Image by Stewf via Flickr I had absolutely no desire to run today. After 14 miles on the road yesterday (including a 10 mile race), 2 hours of canoe paddling, dinner and kid-play with friends, and the mental anguish associated with seeing my wife and 3yo daughter head off to emergency room at 9:00 last […]
My Running Evolution
August 4, 2009 By 2 Comments
I’ve recently been reading the book “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running,” by Haruki Murakami. Murakami’s book is really hard to describe or categorize – it’s part personal running memoir, part race report, part life story, with a heavy dose of personal philosophy sprinkled in. Mix it all together and you have […]
Running Down Memory Lane: Wolcott Elementary, Conard High, and "The Perimeter"
July 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
“The Perimeter.” Mere mention of the phrase still strikes fear into my now 34-year-old heart. “The Perimeter” is a blast from my past, and one that I have not-so-fond memories of. I was never much of a runner in High School. I played soccer and tennis, neither particularly well, and running was always viewed as […]
Runblogger’s Report: What Have I Done on My Summer Vacation?
July 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Remember back when you were in elementary school and your teacher asked you to report on what you did with your summer vacation? Well, this post is my attempt at providing just such a (mid-summer) report. Image by Claudio.Ar (Out until Jul 27th) One of the perks of being a professor at a small college […]
Climbing Mt. Monadnock with the Kids
June 8, 2009 By 5 Comments
My wife and I love to camp, and until we had kids, we were avid hikers. We once spent six weeks driving across the country from campsite to campsite, and were able to visit 15+ national parks. We lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for a summer, working on field crews doing animal surveys (salamanders […]
Tuning Out: Why I Canceled My Expanded Basic Cable TV Service
April 25, 2009 By 2 Comments
And now a short break from my recent stream of running/evolution posts… If you’re like me, you’re probably appalled by how much you shell out each month to your cable television provider. If you take a moment to consider what you get in return for your money, and the number of unwatched channels streamed to […]
The Origin of Oblinkin: How Charles Darwin Helped Me Become a Blogger
April 4, 2009 By 2 Comments
This is the first installment of what I hope will become a running series of posts on becoming a blogger. I have a long history with the world-wide-web. From the early 90’s and Prodigy (you get a gold star if you remember Prodigy), to the mainstream appearance of e-mail and the internet when I was […]
Spring Fever in New Hampshire
March 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I and many others who live in New Hampshire have a love-hate relationship with winter. The first snowfalls are always exciting and pretty, the heavy snows of December-February make for great skiing and snowshoeing, and our state relies heavily on winter sports as a source of revenue. However, by March, most of us up here […]
What Does Tenure Mean
February 18, 2009 By 1 Comment
I recenly received the wonderful news that the college I work at had granted me tenure. For most academics like myself, earning tenure is the pinnacle of your career. It is what we dream of while toiling away as graduate students in a dank, windowless research lab (or in my case, a lab encrusted with […]
