Category: Fitness
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What it’s like to do the Philadelphia Broad Street Run
Getting up at 5:30AM on a Sunday and forcing my body to run 10 grueling miles on Philadelphia’s most famous street doesn’t seem like a good idea, and yet, over 32,000 people including myself did that last weekend. What is it about the IBX Philadelphia Broad Street Run that makes it the most popular 10…
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Am I Achieving My 2010 Goals?
Ouch. I just looked up my goals for 2010 and I am NOT doing well. Here’s my progress so far. 1. Read 12 Books – Easily completed this already. A few I listened to using Audible.com and I read the Purple Cow on my iPhone with the Kindle app. So far I’ve read The Visual…
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5K Results for Collingswood Book Festival
They posted the results for the Collingswood Book Festival 5K. I wasn’t thrilled with my time of 25:14, and I’m hoping to hit around 24:30 in a 5K next month.
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5K Results Reimagined
This graph shows and is sorted by the relative times for each runner on the left, their relative age on the right, and their gender by color. It seems to show that on average, men ran the race faster than women. This graph below is the same data, but sorted by the participants’ age. Image…
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Haddon Twp Turkey Trot 2009 Results
It took me forever to find the results for the Haddon Township Turkey Trot 5K. I don’t see them linked anywhere on the official website, but google had indexed them somehow. One thing I found out after seeing the results was that I didn’t actually get 3rd place in my age group. The overall winner…
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WTF is Up With My Running Lately?
I’ve had a lifelong love/hate relationship with running. I ran cross country for a couple years in high school, but never really enjoyed it.? I liked being on the team, but always hated running while I did it. ?The cheapskate in me loves running because it’s free, but it was always one of those “I’ll…