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Hockey Teamwork

March 5th, 2010 · Comments

1:40:00 – 8 miles
This weekend is the last weekend of the season for my son’s hockey team. It has been a great year for growth for my son not only on the ice, but also learning about what it means to be part of a team. A hockey team is not about one person and [...]

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Tags: Business · Education · Management · Politics · Thoughts on the Run · hockey · motivation

Advice to College Students

February 19th, 2010 · Comments

1:42:00 – 8.5 miles
A friend posted a status update yesterday that she was going to speak to college students and offer career advice. She made the joke that they should get a degree and then work in a job that has nothing to do with it. While it’s funny, it seems to happen often.
Now, students [...]

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Tags: Business · Education · Management · Technology · Thoughts on the Run · leadership

Endurance Definition

February 8th, 2010 · Comments

41:00 – 4 miles
Read an interesting definition of endurance today at the gym:
The ability to continue even under stress and exhaustion.
That certainly applies to my running goals, but it also applies to everything else in life! From the workplace to home, we all face stress and exhaustion daily. It’s the ability to keep going [...]

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CNN Word Cloud

March 25th, 2009 · Comments

01:33:00 – 9 miles
Stepped up the pace and noticing I picked up an extra mile in the same time as last week … and feeling great!
Last night was a Presidential news conference and following the speech, CNN had a word cloud ready to go. In the online marketing world that my career lives, word clouds [...]

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An extra mile

March 24th, 2009 · Comments

53:00 – 5 miles
Well I just looked at my training calendar and I apparently was only supposed to run 4 miles today. Oops. I even stepped up the pace so that I can work on increasing my speed. Not a bad morning, but still seeing the 18 miler coming on Saturday.
So speaking of going an [...]

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