Sunday was the Holiday Hustle 5k in Newton, MA. The whole family went down to watch Lisa run it for the 3rd time, and to watch Hazel run her first 5k. Hazel has been talking about running a 5k for a few years now, and she worked up the nerve to give it a try …
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Do the work
It is no secret that I’ve been unhappy with my race times since leaving Rochester. I’ve had a few theories/excuses, but looking at the graph above it should be no surprise that I ran all my best times between 2011 and 2015. Even if I never run a PR again, I can still put in …
In with the old
I spent a busy weekend running and moving websites around the internet. On Sunday morning I joined some of the guys from the Derry Track Club for a cold and wet 14 miles. That put me over 50 miles for the week for the first time since last June. I spent much of the rest …
What makes education public?
What follows is a post I made on the Plymouth State University internal site. It has marginal reference to running so I thought I’d include it here. This starts with a brief story about running around the Plymouth State University campus, but ends with a larger point about the place of public institutions. Today I …