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Paradox, calm and bright
A Christmas letter from Iraq, 2003
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Throughlines (part 2)
Running as throughline was no longer a romantic idea or a useful tactic, but a lived physical fact. Having that, I could view my current situation as…
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Throughlines (part 1)
The real power is continuity, the fact of a throughline that is solidly anchored in your past, and that you can see leading clearly into your future,
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UTMB Gone Astray
Can an intervention bring them back? (I’d like us to help New UTMB remember what Old UTMB was like, and help them find their way back to that. Because I…
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Change of Mission (Iraq, 2003)
Yesterday morning, we were going home
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An Old Rant (my neighbor mutilates his trees)
I seek first to understand, and I do penance and mitigation for his sins, I plant and plant...
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Ardent Hearts
Earnest effort, the call, obligations that pull us back to shore (and Cormac serendipity)
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Why run ultras?
Most ultra-runners are also philosophers, and one of the fundamental questions of our sport is... Why? I have no definitive answer, but I did start a…
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Something Fierce
A dominant primordial beast, eligible to burst forth (I suspect it of you)
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A Running Start
I move by force of will, he moves by force of wonder. (Running with a child, pulling yourself forward into the wind, looking out.)
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Intimate Places
Familiarity sparks affection, becomes more: the accumulated intimacy of years, and knowing a place versus visiting
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Race Faces
The look in the eye, the set of the body — you’re gazing upon something fundamental to our nature, something fundamentally powerful and good. Restoring…
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