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Comrades Update: Darkness Befalls Me

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] This post is one in a series about my preparations to run Comrades Marathon in South Africa next May.  Comrades is the world’s oldest and largest ultramarathon.  The 2016 race is a “down run”, so its 90KM (about 56 miles) will start in Pietermaritzburg and run to the coastal town …

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Review: Garmin Vivofit

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]           One of the biggest changes in the fitness industry in the last five years has been the explosion of options in wearable fitness tracking technology.  The number of companies in the market– and all of the options each of those companies offers– is really quite …

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Marathoning Made Complicated

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] About six weeks ago, I got the good news that my name was drawn in the lottery to run in the New York City Marathon this November.  This is a dream come true, as I turn 40 this fall and wanted to mark the milestone with something to prove to myself …

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