I wrote this piece on fishing with kids for NH.com and it appears on the homepage today. It includes information and links on how to get started, gear, and where to access kid-friendly shoreline fishing in New Hampshire. Also note the photo – David as a wee fisherman a few years back. Hard to believe [...]
David reads a story on the Silly Bandz fad aloud to his sisters from the Sunday paper’s Parade mag. He should know. Note his arm! Boy, it may have been many years since the “friendship beads” of my own childhood, but in some ways things are very much the same.
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I like tempo runs. In addition to the physiological benefits of steady running at lactate threshold pace (adaptations particularly helpful for half marathon and marathon runners), they always help to remind me that despite how hard the pace feels over one mile, the feeling is not necessarily an indicator of how many miles I’ll be [...]
Kristen caught our almost-three-year-old perusing the latest issue of Runners World earlier today.
My (otherwise excellent) Advanced Marathoning training book gives this advice for taper week: “If at all possible, during the last week before the marathon, reduce not just your training but also the amount of stress in your life.” It goes on to recommend, “Avoid having major deadlines at work or other energy-draining undertakings.” Ha. In [...]
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It’s been about 8 months since I had to drop out of the Hyannis Marathon at mile 23 with an IT band so messed up I could barely limp. And it’s been about a year since I finished my first marathon, the Maine Marathon in Portland, at 3:19:25, euphoric despite being a bit shy of [...]
Sticktoitiveness, grit, persistence – whatever you call it, it predicts future success better than raw talent alone. I came across a story on Boston.com last week that got me thinking about this. In it, Jonah Lehrer, reviewing a recent study on grit, points out: “While researchers have long focused on measurements of intelligence, such as [...]
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Okay, roll on your turtleneck, slip into your sportcoat with the patches on the elbows and let’s sip some espresso together while Joseph Pelling lets fly at buzzword laden conversation … (Even a minimal self-awareness dictates that I acknowledge owning that outfit and having had conversations that – if not quite this silly – at [...]
“In times of stress, leaders tend to communicate less about more, when in fact they should be communicating more about less,” according to Deb Titus, from Dale Carnegie, who gave a Webinar at The Telegraph last week. Here are a few tidbits I jotted down during the session, all of which to me seem to [...]
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