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	<title>Blogging Is For Jerks</title>
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		<title>Quantify my luck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2007, I ran 600 miles.  In 2008, I ran 679.5.    This year, I finally cracked the sevens, and ran 702.  Three marathons (Wisconsin, Deadwood-Mickelson, and Grand Island), my regular half marathon, and my first ultramarathon (a 50k), typed into my meticulous training&#160;log.
Total miles: 702
Total time spent running:  109 hours, 32 minutes, 12 seconds (give [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blarf.com/2009/12/31/quantify-my-luck</link>
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		<title>follow the dotted line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[4:45 am.  Ugh.  I don&#8217;t get up this early for work, and here it&#8217;s Saturday.  A quick wakeup shower, then time to get my gear on.  Long sleeve tech shirt, short sleeve Grand Island Trail Marathon/North Face tech shirt.  Compression shorts.  Running shorts.  Vibram fivefingers; my lizard feet.  Threw on my old&#160;windpants.
Slightly nervously, I drank [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blarf.com/2009/10/28/follow-the-dotted-line</link>
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		<title>unbitten, but the way i found it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was dark.  These fall evening runs get dark so fast.  I&#8217;d reached the turn around point at the south end of Pennoyer Park and was heading back south through Kennedy Park.  The dark requires a certain amount of vigilance, not so much for people, but for obstacles.  You learn to trust your peripheral (&#8220;periphial&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blarf.com/2009/10/23/unbitten-but-the-way-i-found-it</link>
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		<title>the feet the world dances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In July of 2008, I ran the Grand Island Trail Marathon in Michigan.  The race is 26.2 miles around the perimeter of Grand Island, off the shores of the Upper Peninsula in Lake Superior.  You have to take a ferry to get there.  You run over dirt trails, sand beaches, muddy slop, and endlessly tall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blarf.com/2009/09/01/the-feet-the-world-dances</link>
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		<title>that&#8217;s Kool Aid and gin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally got to run with my coworker Steve on Saturday.  We&#8217;re running a trail marathon together this month, and I wanted to see how he handles the dirt and hills.  Steve is definitely faster than me on the road; last September we ran a half marathon &#8220;together&#8221; and I&#8217;d lost sight of him by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blarf.com/2009/07/09/thats-kool-aid-and-gin</link>
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