Monthly Archive for April, 2009

team work

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The other side of running in Portland was how much fun it was to run with so many awesome friends (even though we weren’t all running “together”). It was particularly cool seeing everyone who ran meet their individual goals: M getting back on the distance running horse not even a year after surgery, Andy’s first marathon clocked in at under 1.5 hours, Aaron beat his first half-marathon time by a significant margin… everyone just did awesome. As per usual, the pics are posted here. There are some pretty wretched ones of me at the finishline that pretty much tell the story of how I felt at the end!

goals, priorities and planning

Race for the Roses Half Marathon 4-5-2009, Course

Two weeks ago I rocked my first half marathon. At the outset, the endeavor of running 13.1 miles was daunting. Like any good management project, goals and priorities had to be set and a plan established in line with those goals. To define success, each goal was assigned a priority:

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situation normal

It was brought to my attention today that I have not been quite diligent enough in posting. I apologize. You see, I’ve been busy. Doing what, you ask? Well living, I suppose. All pretty normal stuff. Running. Working. Dinners. Drinks. Reading. Book club. Movies. Etc. Etc. Etc.

Bits of random…

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