Last winter I trained for a half marathon.  My longest run was about 13 miles.  No problem.  Loved the training.  So much so that over the summer I trained for a marathon, and became obsessed with the long, long run.  Those near mystical two to three hour runs through Southern New Hampshire that carry you [...]

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Ernesto on January 5th, 2009

For my first posterous to blog to Facebook to twitter post via mobile I wanted show off this pic of my cool runner wife modeling her new favorite shirt. “I run like a girl”? Yeah, and? Posted via email from Ernesto Burden

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Recovering from this morning’s 19-miler (first five before the sun came up, ugh), with coffee and catching up on a week’s worth of posts from the various running blogs I follow, I noticed a trend: many stories about snow-running related tweaks or recurrences of old injuries, etc.  It’s a catch 22 – running on the [...]

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Ernesto on January 1st, 2009

Mother and Son Woodworking! Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden New Year’s Day. Kris works with David on a woodworking project he got for Christmas. This is after she hung some new blinds in the bathroom and instructed David and Sofia on drilling pilot holes with a power drill. Nice!

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Ernesto on January 1st, 2009

Winter Running Gear Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden This is the second year I’ve trained pretty heavily straight through the winter for a February race. Given that a February race in New England is as likely to be cold, windy and snowy as not, I try and train in those conditions as well. [...]

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Ernesto on January 1st, 2009

New Year’s Day 2009 Run! Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden Mulling over some resolutions for 2009 during my run today. I came up with a long list of ever more complicated resolutions, many with clauses, appendices and exemptions, some with deeply-nested if-then statements. Embarrassing, I realized as I sat down to type them [...]

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