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The wrong class of euphoria-inducing chemicals
Chuck McCaffery and me, after finishing the 5.5 mile Allerton Park Trail Race in 2003. Photo by Jackie Brewer. I remember back in the late 1970s and early 1980s people were speculating that endorphins...
View ArticleAn open-ended run
Yesterday, I went on my first open-ended run of the season. On earlier runs, I pretty much knew how far I was going to go and what route I’d follow. Occasionally there’d be a bit of room for...
View ArticleThinking about paleo, with bonus anecdote
I have been on-and-off reading about “paleo” diet and exercise programs (also called “primal”). I think there’s a lot to paleo, on an evolutionary basis. On the other hand, there are an awful lot of...
View ArticleNew longest walk
By merest happenstance, Jackie and I both had the same distance as the furthest we’d ever walked: 14 miles. She’d hiked hers at Yosemite. I’d hiked mine in the Uinta Mountains in Utah. On today’s hike,...
View ArticleNon-weekly training schedules
I got a great comment on my previous post (thanks Ilana!), and started to reply in a comment there, but realized that I was straying into something that I wanted to talk in a post—training cycles that...
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Yesterday’s very long walk: 23 miles
With giant rabbit sculpture in Meadowbrook Park. We’re just about there. The Kal-Haven trail is 33.5 miles, and yesterday we walked 23.3. My plan had been “more than 20,” and we managed that, although...
View ArticleKaty Bowman: The Michael Pollan of movement
I have always found “deconstructionist” models appealing. For example, I liked the idea that you could “figure out” all the nutrients that you need and then build up a diet that provides the right mix...
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Walking past the UofI’s solar farm
There’s a dearth of good walking routes from Winfield Village to Champaign and Urbana. From west to east, the choices are Prospect, Lyndhurst/Fox Drive, Neil/Route 45, First Street, and Race Street....
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2022-01-23 07:03
I’m only rarely in shape to run 7+ miles, and even more rarely in shape to do it in the winter. 🏃🏻♂️ I spotted this toy in mile 4, and paused to get a photo.
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