The Great Ganesha

The Finisher’s Medal, front and back
Well, folks, we did it! 26.2 miles! My second marathon, the wife’s first. Here’s our route, freshly uploaded from the GPS into Google Earth.

Temperatures were in the low 60s with fog, which made it perfect for me and perfect for running. In fact, it was so foggy, I couldn’t [...]

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Well folks, after all those months of training, it’s finally here. My second marathon.

Not sure if we’ll finish in the allotted time - there have been quite a few setbacks, especially in the last couple of months of training. Coincidentally, these months are also the most crucial. Nonetheless, we’ve registered, so it’s a go.
Come out [...]

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Now this caught me completely by surprise. I’ve heard of people running through the freezing Arctic, through the Gobi desert, hell even doing an ultramarathon through Death Valley in July. But this is something else. Our very own Sunita Williams, astronaut desiordinaire, is going to run the Boston Marathon in space!
Sunita Williams, 41, a [...]

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Last Thursday, I was complaining like hell. Well, I have to admit, despite high mileages this week, in fact, some of the highest I have done in a long time, the run wasn’t so bad. Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday was 5-7-6, respectively. Not much, I know, but we’re building it slow and easy. It’s the first marathon for [...]

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Goddamn! Running on Thursdays is a bloody pain.
So, the RX Geek and me are training for the SF Marathon coming up at the end of July. We’re using this training schedule. We didn’t choose that particular one for any special reason other than that it was easy to find, was well-suited for beginners (it’s the [...]

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Apparently, running when you’re injured is good for you. An article ($) in January’s NYT talks about running through injuries and how it helps them heal faster. Now, before you naysayer couch-potato-types jump on me, it’s not like you should run with shattered kneecaps and fractured tibias, but you can run with certain not-so-serious (that’s [...]

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An article in yesterday’s Times says that too much marathoning might just be a bad thing. What? After all I’ve said about how much running is good for you? Well, it’s not quite that simple. Running is still good for you, however,
After years in which almost no deaths were attributed to heart attacks at this [...]

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Heh! I bet the title caught your eye, eh? [Wink wink, nudge nudge] Sort of like the last time I blogged about Britney Spears being nude in NYC! Well, all the various national interest groups with ‘Family’ in their name can rest easy. I’m not talking about all the bonking that went on between Hugh [...]

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Are you one of those cynical people who sit on park benches and laugh at the joggers who pass you?
“Ha!” you scoff, “We’re all going to die anyway!”
Berating all joggers, you wait patiently for the next one to die of a heart attack, at which point you will say, with smug satisfaction, “What did I [...]

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Every year, there is a series of four races that take place across the globe. The only difference between this series and other series is that these are 100-mile runs across four of the world’s deserts. The last one, is called the the Last Desert competition and it’s in Antarctica.
Part spiritual quest, part kamikaze mission, [...]

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