October 19 2019 – The Baltimore Marathon

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Some you do for time and some you do for the times. This was a marathon as an excuse to see some friends from the Murphy’s Law plagued Kilimanjaro trip of 2018. Eugene “Gene” “Fritz” “Gene-o” Fritzel recently retired from the Baltimore Police Department after a long and storied career. Like me, he and his […]

Eliud Kipchoge – Keeping It In Perspective

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Eliud Kipchoge broke the sub-2 hour barrier in the marathon on a curated course in Vienna, Austria. With 30 top-flight pacers and the use of frickin’ lasers, he ran a 1:59:40, shattering the physical and mental barriers to run 42.195 kilometers in under 2 hours. That’s… amazing. Much like Roger Bannister posting a 4-minute-mile, once […]

Do Math Wizards Get Burned At The Stake?

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I’m not too far from Salem (Oregon), so i find myself wondering if wizards were ever burned st the stake. The historical patriarchal hypocrisy of it all! Anyhoo, if they did ever burn wizards, i could potentially prove mh innocence via the math mistake of yesterday. Turns out I ran one ninite FORTY-SEVEN seconds faster […]

Portland Marathon 2019 – Placeholder

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Some things to upload, some things to comment upon, some things to research… but I’m too tired right now to do any of that. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. For now, a note on a BQ … but with insufficient buffer to assure a place. In 2020, one had to run 1 minute 39 seconds […]

Pictures from Portlandia!

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A few months ago, I hastily registered for this marathon in the hopes of having an excuse to be in town to meet up with a woman I met from Portland. In the intervening months, we went on a disastrous date that would’ve made a hilariously awkward Hollywood romantic comedy of errors; unfortunately, as this […]