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After last weekend’s beach adventure that saw the return of Cherry Man, I spent the last week recovering. Monday and Tuesday were given over to slathering massive amounts of green aloe vera gel on my sunburned face in a desperate attempt to try and speed the recovery process, and Wednesday and Thursday were spent shedding…
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The return of Cherry Man
Last summer I went to the beach…maybe twice. For someone who lives this close to the lake, that’s a positively shameful thing to say. Truth is I didn’t really feel like running around in a bathing suit. Last summer, though, my best friend took me up with him to his place on Lake Charlevoix, which…
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Running, biking, and what’s next
I figured I would start working on a list of events I was planning on participating in this summer as I work towards my goal of running 50K for Runfos. I’ll work on the list as the summer stretches on. June Panther Prowl (5K) Zeeland Zoom (5K) July Lakeshore Miracle Run (10K) August Oshtemo Sunburst…
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10K
Way back in February when I first started hearing about Runfos and it was mentioned that one of our big goals for the next few months was to participate in the River Bank Run in May, I was a bit daunted. Doing a quarter mile at an 11:30 pace was a challenge. How I was…
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Oh, that’s right. I have a blog.
I knew I hadn’t posted anything in a while, but nearly a month? This is about how lazy I’ve become. Or just otherwise distracted, depending on how you look at it. Spring, however, is FINALLY here. Given that it’s May, it damn well better be here by now. April’s weather was downright schizophrenic. We had…
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Three-day adventure
Friday, I took the day off, mostly because I haven’t had a day off in a while. I had plans to revisit a cherished college tradition: pizza, Diet Coke, and Halo 2. For the most part, it was a successful revisiting; I rested, I played video games, I drank a ton of Diet Coke, and…
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Back on the run
Yesterday I ran for the first time in a week, and for the first time since the infamous Carfos incident from a couple months ago, I went back to the beach of doom. The snow had melted away by now (believe it or not, there are still some sizeable piles of dirt and snow around…
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Sir, why are you running so fast?
This should tell you how exciting downtown Holland can be on a Saturday night. We were at a complete dive bar and my friend decided that the time had come to get the car, which was a couple of blocks down the street. Being the athletic type, he decided to Runfos his way back. On…
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Sidecars
I’m fairly certain I already covered this in a previous post, but last week was pretty rock-solid awesome. Between the running, the biking, the 5K, the soccer game, etc., I was both really really pleased with myself and really, really exhausted on Friday night. I did what the cool kids did and took a nap…
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First 5K
Yesterday was St. Patty’s Day, which for many people my age, it was the one day a year you can roll out of bed, crack a Guinness, and then blow off class. Or call a sick day. That’s the thing about graduating and becoming an adult: you have to be responsible and go to work.…
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