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A Confluence of Stoicism, Zen, and a Spartan Ethos.

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      • Do We Think At All?
      • New Logic in the Trump Era
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      • Global Warming and Capitalism
      • History Repeats
      • Republican Angst
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      • Do you believe?
      • Failing one another
      • Faust Knew Better
      • Lobotomy
      • Faust Knew Better
      • Not Tragic
      • Naive or Stupid
      • COVID and GDP
      • Trump and the Courts
      • 356,000 Dead. 12/16/2020.
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      • Sitting
      • Dukkha and God
      • The Enchiridion
      • Happy New Day
      • Coalescing Thoughts
      • Centurion
      • Our Backyard is a Carryout for Hawks
      • The Captain
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      • Delta
      • COVID Thoughts
      • A Year of COVID
      • Do you believe?
    • Lunch Out
  • Body
    • Mind on Body
      • Intensity
      • Evolutionariy Normal
      • Outdoors
      • sometimes it’s just about running
      • Toughness
      • Black Ice
    • Health
      • Sarcopenia
      • It’s 72 Hours, Stupid
      • Taxonomy of Processed Food
        • WHO Director-General Margaret Chan Quote
      • Getting Older….Weight Gain
      • Slowing Metabolism: an Excuse
      • Extreme Weight Loss and Exercise
      • Magic Number
    • Workout Logs
      • Exercise Log
      • Lifting Log
    • Running
    • Strength Training
    • New Strength Training Tweak
    • I don’t like running without Denise
    • Any Run is Better Than No run
  • Chez Denise
    • Today, We Splurged
    • October 30, 2021 A Day in the Life
  • Technology
    • Interesting Python Idioms
    • Facebook vs. Blogspot vs. WordPress (Fairy) vs. Joomla
    • Covid, Python, Data Science and Gun Deaths
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    • On the Road to Kantishna
    • Various Photos

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Mind Running

1/22-23/22 Mental Toughness

January 23, 2022January 24, 2022

Ok, so maybe it was a little tough getting out there yesterday. It was 17 F with a wind chill of 7 F. I was

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Outdoors

January 16, 2022January 17, 2022

For me, the transformation began at 49, when I started my quest for that first marathon. To some extent, it was a rebirth or a

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Body Running

Magic Number

December 27, 2020December 19, 2021

An hour’s exercise a day is magical.

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Mind Running

Extreme Weight Loss and Exercise

December 18, 2021December 19, 2021

The December 15, 2021 issue of the New York Times ran an interesting article, “How Exercise Affects Metabolism and Weight Loss,” which reports on newly

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Human Experience Mind Running

2021

November 16, 2021

2021 was not the best of years for me. During the 2020 lockdown, I flourished using the time off to work out and study data

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Human Experience Running Strength Training

Intensity

August 17, 2021August 20, 2021

Dopamine is evolution’s reward system for behaviors that increased the reproductive success of hunter-gatherers, long-distance hunting and gathering, eating high calories foods, and sex. Today we no longer persistence hunt, but regular exercisers enjoy the rewards of the long hunt.

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2021 Body Log

January 4, 2021August 17, 2021

Th. 6/3 Been chronically tired this week since the rowing. Decided to sleep in until 5 AM which pretty much precludes working out. We. 6/2

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Running Strength Training

Marine Corps Marathon 2021

February 27, 2021February 27, 2021

Again. I do it because it offers me the opportunity to be a measurably better person in eight months than I am now. I do

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Running Strength Training

It’s 72 Hours, Stupid

January 3, 2021January 3, 2021

Never let more than 72 hours pass between your last strength or cardiovascular work out.

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Mind Nature Running

Outdoors

January 1, 2021January 1, 2021

Denise broke her toe two weeks ago. It knocked the steam out of my running. I’m very used to having her around for the first

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Body Mind Running

sometimes it’s just about running

December 19, 2020January 1, 2021

Git her done.

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Body Mind Running

Toughness

December 20, 2020January 1, 2021

I mentioned the mental (some would say spiritual) and nourishing benefits of running outdoors in a previous post. I neglected one very important benefit from

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Running

Black Ice

December 17, 2020January 1, 2021

A world of black ice out there, low life-morale, Trumpdemic fatigue versus will.

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Running

I don’t like running without Denise

December 12, 2020December 16, 2020

We had a heavy fog this morning. Normally, I go out of my way to get out there at dawn in fog. But I lingered

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Running

Any Run is Better Than No run

December 15, 2020December 16, 2020

A treadmill beats not running at all. Two miles beats zero miles. A cute advertising slogan for running shoes a few years ago went ”

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