Musings about Smashrun, travel, good food, and great beer.
by jacklyn
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. –Paulo Coelho, Brazilian poet and writer. These days, I run alongside open fields. Just wide open fields. Occasionally, there’s a cute little white dog running around who likes to stand by Casa de Miguel. I think it’s because he thinks his …
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Beach Ford All American Run 5K Saturday, October 06, 2012 8:00 AM Weather Conditions 72°F with 83% humidity, sunny with a mostly shaded route Course Paved road, around a neighborhood but without too much camber. Flat. What I liked About the Race Very fast course and competitive participants, but everyone was pretty friendly. Lots of …
I made one of the best discoveries last month: the distance from our place to the Back Deck (an outdoor bar overlooking Lynnhaven Bay) is exactly 10 kilometers away. That’s pretty much my perfect distance! It’s already a ritual to do $2 fish tacos and Tecates on the Back Deck on Tuesdays. It only made …
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by jacklyn
It’s been forever since my last race and I’ve been itching to register for all sort of events throughout summer. Since we’re basically counting days until we move (29 days to be exact!), Chris and I finally decided to sign up for a local event just to get a feel for where we stand on …
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Not the most structured month for my running. Made an effort to more frequently hit at least four miles, but our release in mid-August and scrambling to quickly redesign some fundamentally different pages on Smashrun meant late nights and very little rest. I tried to keep my trailing weekly mileage close to 30 miles after …
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by jacklyn
My “roadrunner” month. The heat index averaged just over 80 °F with most of my runs starting around 7:30am. I had one silly run in the middle of the day through a muddy trail when the heat index topped off at 94 °F – that wasn’t my best moment, but it was oddly meditative. I …
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One of the better studies I’ve found on the effects of training and detraining on adipose tissue for runners. It confirms much of what we know about the benefits of aerobic activity, but the confirmation is reassuring, especially with such a large sample of runners. WILLIAMS, PAUL T., AND PAUL D. THOMPSON.Dose-dependent effects of training …
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by jacklyn
The easy run month. I know I’m not supposed to cop out and neglect my training schedule, but a rising heat index isn’t the most conducive for hard runs, which ruled out most of my speedwork. Blah. Last month’s Cooper Test also left me a bit out of it for the first week of June …
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Summer arrived early in Virginia Beach. The humid days are here! It’s pretty much impossible to avoid the heat so I haven’t really changed my running schedule. I gear up and head out whether or not it’s sunburn territory. So much for moderating my summer tan. May was harder than April, because I pretty much …
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Reproduced from my post on Medium. This will sound silly and you don’t have to agree, but I’m convinced that runners are a lot like dancers. Needless to say, I do run a lot and I pretty much dance whenever the opportunity presents itself. If I could put the two of them together and execute it gracefully …
