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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The question of what’s “fair use” in terms of aggregators indexing and providing lists of stories from newspapers, for example, on their own pages (Google news is good example) is a thorny one, made ever more urgent by news organizations need to grow revenues online more rapidly to offset print declines. Is Google unfairly profiting [...]
A bit of humor for all of you who, like me, labor in the trenches in the embattled newspaper industry (a battle well-worth fighting for the sake of local journalism, information, the right-to-know and essentially, democracy), here’s Stephen Colbert’s take on newspapers as he sits down with John Sturm of the NAA.
The Colbert Report
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Wishing you all a joyful Easter; I feel immensely grateful today. I couldn’t help but reflect during a beautiful Mass at Ste. Marie Parish today (props to the choir and the magnificent brass section), that in times as challenging as these, where the news of the day each day is filled with financial crisis and [...]
After we got the kids in bed and the chores done, I sat down last night and knocked out three and a half pages of a screenplay. Why? ScriptFrenzy. Write a 100 page script in a month. Sort of like the National Novel Writing Month (NANOWRIMO) challenge. My buddy Jay mentioned [...]
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