I love to travel but hate to fly. Thankfully, I found a person to help me cope with my irrational fear (but is it really irrational?) that I’m going to fall out of the sky.
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Training & Racing, Travel & Gear
Goals and Grit for 2011
I'm writing about goals and grit rather than "new year's resolutions" because that phrase seems so prone to failure. Goals take grit, which might be defined as perseverance combined with passion. Also, I want others to go public with their goals here. How about we make a virtual pact to go for it?
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Destinations, Training & Racing
A New Year & New Blog: Welcome to The Runner’s Trip
I like to think of running in terms of a trip, in all senses of the word: a journey, a mind-bending head trip, and a stumble that represents unexpected challenges and comebacks. Infected by wanderlust, I love to take all kinds of trips. I came up with "the runner's trip" to capture those concepts and desires. If "the runner's high" is a peak, then "the runner's trip" is a whole mountain range.
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Destinations, Training & Racing
A Yosemite 5-Day Guide: Run the Valley to the Peaks
After five days and some 60 miles on the trail, I felt far more fulfilled than fatigued, perhaps because, as John Muir once said, "In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks."
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My Favorite Do-Anywhere Speed Workout
When I don't feel like going to the track, or I'm traveling and a track isn't available, then I do this speed workout on the open trail or road.
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Meet, Plan, Go!, Travel & Gear
Run Long But Travel Light: A Runner’s Packing List
Our running gear made our bags burst. Here’s how we kept our promise to pack only what we easily could carry, and still have the gear we needed to run on our trip.
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Baptism by Firetrails: A Debut 50-Miler Through the East Bay Hills
Being a student and groupie of ultrarunning for several years could not prepare me for what I had to learn firsthand. I felt baptized into the sport when I said in my head, "Oh, so this is what it's all about—this is what I signed up for. It's supposed to hurt. It's supposed to be hard. I'm supposed to be more like a tortoise and less like a hare-brained hare."
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Brighton & Seaford, UK: Lotsa Fun and Races to Run
If you wanna combine a dazzling seaside destination with running, consider Brighton and one of these two races.
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Meet, Plan, Go!, Travel & Gear
The Biggest Mistakes to Avoid When Planning Long-Term Travel
We muddled through the highly subjective, somewhat arbitrary, always tortuous, often fascinating, and just as often maddening process of planning a year-long travel itinerary. Along the way, we learned from mistakes and developed a few guiding principles to minimize the time spent planning while maximizing the chances we’ll wind up in fabulous yet affordable places.
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