by “Sure it was just a race, but sports are not really separate from life, nor is the athlete distinct from the person.”
Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
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Great news for those hoping for a return to new normal in the running world…
Hamburg Marathon To Be Held With 10,000 Runners and Elites on September 13th
UPDATE: Well ok, the running world remained shut down for the rest of 2020. As I write this update to the post (Jan 9, 2021) the pandemic
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Pandemic: Reflecting on the first weeks [journal entry]
Within three weeks of the pandemic, I couldn’t bring myself to run at all. Looking back on it now, I understand ‘why’
As the pandemic took hold, races were dropped like loose change. And not just the big races either. …
Patron Saint of Running
Is there a patron saint of runners? Anyone who knows anything at all about Catholicism knows that there is a patron saint for anything and everything. YES, this means that there’s even a patron saint for us runners.
Meet Saint
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Des Linden’s book recommendations
Des Linden’s reading list
Des Linden isn’t shy about her love of books. Her personal reading quota is four books per month.
What books does she read? Glad you asked! Here’s a selection of Des Linden’s reading came up …
Two Important Lessons I Learned From My DNS
“No Marathon For You” [journal entry]
So I’d been working toward my first marathon, which was to have happened November 9. The training went great, despite a few weeks that I needed to cut back on the intensity due to …
