![[dirty legs photo]](http://www.nomeatathlete.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/dirty-legs-photo-150x150.jpg "[dirty legs photo]")
Sweet new header, huh? Check out how dirty (read: hardcore) I am! Check out how I eat anything I want after long runs! (I’m sitting on the floor because I’m dirty.) I just got back from running the fourth and final 20 miler of my training, and the trail was all muddy. That didn’t affect…
From an application letter I wrote in early 2006 to the University of Maryland Applied Math department: As an example of my determination in achieving goals, I would like to mention one of my personal interests—marathon running. Having always been involved with athletics and fitness, I decided in 2002 that I would run a marathon…
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Just like so many runs recently, the 15-miler went great yesterday. And it didn’t rain at all like I thought it would. I actually did slightly more than 15 miles in 1:52:06, for the 7:25 pace that I was going for. Since 15 seems like nothing compared to 20, I had been sort of downplaying…
![[peanut butter cup photo]](http://www.nomeatathlete.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/peanut-butter-cup-photo-150x150.jpg "[peanut butter cup photo]")
I’m not being facetious. Hear me out! I had a fantasy football draft on Friday night, although the team I put together is nobody’s fantasy. But it was fun as always, and many delightful beverages with frost-brewed liners that tell you when they’re cold were consumed by all. As a result, I woke up on…
28 days to go. Four weeks from today, I’ll be running the Wineglass Marathon, with my first legitimate shot at qualifying for Boston. My training has gone extremely well recently, and I can’t imagine feeling better heading into the final few weeks. I ran that solid 20-miler early this week, and since then I’ve had…
![[bionic foot photo]](http://www.nomeatathlete.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bionic-foot-photo-150x150.jpg "[bionic foot photo]")
Shame on me, posting so late again! Sometimes life just gets in the way, you know? “Life,” in this case, isn’t my new blog Health Blog Helper, though I am even more excited about that today after the response to my first two posts got (thanks, in no small part, to Caitlin from Healthy Tipping…
“Excuses are like booties. Everybody’s got one, and they all stink.” This is what the teacher of a songwriting course I took in college used to tell us. If the phrase is trite, then I need to get out more, because it was new to me then and I’ve never heard it since. It struck…
![[erin belly photo]](http://www.nomeatathlete.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/erin-belly-photo-150x150.jpg "[erin belly photo]")
Whoa, way late on the post today! For that I apologize; I had to pick up some shirts from the printer and get them shipped off. (And that means more women’s mediums and smalls are available now!) But Erin and I also did something far more exciting, which I’ll save for last today. This (food)…
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