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A foot-race mercenary knows how to place 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in a division of a marathon, half-marathon, 10K, 5K, or other race. Do you? Getting to stand on a podium in one’s division is fun. I know. I finally got to do this a few weeks ago for the first time in my life. …
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Congratulations to SpryFeet.com Readers Club member Emily Schultz for winning the birthday-month drawing for August, 2018. Emily won a Google Play copy of Running with Dogs. You could be a future winner of one of my books — covering topics as diverse as run:walk pace tables, how to lose weight in 10,000 steps a day, …
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I didn’t run the 2018 Chevron Houston Marathon. That’s right. Even though my name shows in the official records as finishing in 5:56:33, I didn’t run it. No. I walked it. That’s right. I walked the entire marathon, and I finished within the six-hour time limit. Here are ten lessons that I learned or re-learned …
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Have you ever had a marathon that did not go well? How about one that made you anxious toward the end? A few days ago, on January 15, 2017, I ran the 2017 Chevron Houston Marathon (“Chevron”). Here are my final chip-times, splits at 13.1 miles, and Houston weather for my previous four Chevrons. The …
Here is my time-lapse video of the 2016 Texas Half-Marathon, shot 1 January 2016 with GoPro Hero 3+ Silver Edition, from crossing the start line through two loops of the course to crossing the finish line, in the Kingwood master-planned community of Houston, Texas — the site of the Texas Marathon, which occurs concurrently on …
Do you love parks? I do. Even better, I’m fortunate to live in a city with a fantastic one: Memorial Park, in Houston, Texas.
Pursuing negative-split marathons can make you unhappy, and I want you to be happier with your running or walking. The concept of a negative split comes from the track world, where a “split” refers to the time required to complete a segment of an entire race or workout — for example, to complete a 400-meter …
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Happiness and a perception of no progress when it comes to marathons and half-marathons do not go together, but this perception can easily occur. Let’s look at how to overcome this perception. I ran my fifteenth marathon last month. It was the 2014 Chevron Houston Marathon. My first marathon was eleven years earlier – also …
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Happiness and frustration go together. This may seem counter-intuitive at first blush, so let me explain. Quoting author and marketing guru Dan S. Kennedy in the November, 2013, No B.S. Marketing Letter, “There seems to me to be a connection between the amount, the frequency, [and] the severity of frustration a person can handle and …
Happiness breeds exceptionality, and exceptionality breeds happiness. There is a lot of talk now about exceptionalism, which has been defined at Wikipedia.org as “the perception that a country, society, institution, movement, or time period is ‘exceptional’ (i.e., unusual or extraordinary) in some way”. John J. Miller, Director of the Herbert H. Dow II Program in …