With a big mountain bike race coming this weekend, my plan for this race was to give just enough effort to place well for the summertime racing series. I had a gameplan, but as soon as the gun went off, it went out the window… As my completely soaked shorts and shoes can attest, it

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Went on down to Bluemont Park after work last night (1.5mi bike ride… can’t ask for a better location) to run in this little club race. This exact race last year marked my “return” to running. I still haven’t quite returned, averaging only 7.5 miles per week this year, but it is what it is.

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Yesterday was the 14th Annual Race for Hope in Washington, D.C. Shortly after Mom was diagnosed with a Grade IV glioblastoma, the husband of a former coworker of hers signed up for the fundraiser/race to honor my mom and raise funds for research into brain tumor cures and set a goal of [I think] $1000.

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As I don’t have the time right now to migrate to a new backend, I’ve implemented some changes that should thwart spammers a tiny bit. I’m not requiring registration just yet, but if you run into anything that slows your legitimate commenting down, let me know. I’ll get around to cleaning up the spam comments

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I just spent Sunday through Wednesday in the Lone Star State for the 2011 Chronotrack User’s Conference… San Antonio to be specific. This was the first time I’d ever spent any time in Texas aside from layovers in Dallas. My hopes weren’t too high as I have heard for years that Austin is really the

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Welcome, to the first in a two-part series of year-beginning posts. In years past, I’ve lumped my yearly review and look ahead into a single post. Not this time around. Why? I didn’t like the naming scheme I’d used in the past. Yeah, I’m that fickle. We’ll start off with the goals I set for

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