Apr 30
The “10,000 Hour Rule” is a common theme from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers. While I haven’t read the book in over a year, the idea behind it has been on my mind lately. If you haven’t read Outliers (you should), the general idea is that to become truly great at something, you must spend 10,000 …
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Apr 09
What a whirlwind of a weekend. I can’t believe how much we crammed into 4 days. We started off on Thursday by boarding the train and heading into Chicago. We being myself, Jennie and my brother-in-law Brad. As a Christmas present, we gave him a delayed trip to Chicago. He had never been and shopping …
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Mar 22
Running On Saturday, Jennie and I ran the annual Irish Jig 5k. For a full report go read Jennie’s post here. I ended up running a 19:02 finishing 99th overall out of 2,434 in the men’s race. I was hoping for a PR (current PR is 18:56), but my running has felt off ever since …
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Mar 15
I finally had time to sit down and do a review of The Plan. With the marathon now over a week in the past, it is probably a good time to reflect on what led up to the race. The Plan, for those that don’t remember, was based off of the book Advanced Marathoning by …
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Sep 22
First off, most of you probably know how obsessed I am with The Office. I can’t get enough of it. (TWSS) Granted, this last season has been nothing but crap, but I can (and do) watch the early season reruns over and over and over (ask Jennie). If you haven’t seen the first episode, watch …
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