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Month: August 2012

My Amazing Runner Pick from the Olympic Marathon

My Amazing Runner Pick from the Olympic Marathon

Not Mutai. Not Keflezighi. Not Ryan Hall.  My amazing runner is Ram Singh Yadav from India – the only second person from India to have qualified for the Olympics in the Marathon. He finished 78th with a time of 2:30:19 (the winning time was 2:08:01, and his own PR was 2:16:59 at Mumbai Marathon where he qualified for the Olympics) but he finished the course where 20 runners did not finish, including Ryan Hall and Abdi Abdirahman.  He was asked…

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Wildlife Visitations on a Long Run

Wildlife Visitations on a Long Run

The Get Fit Atlanta group runs on the Silver Comet trail and occasionally we get to see some wild critters. Not as dramatic as the Armadollio, but today’s was a tiny little dead snake on the trail and a little bunny. Overall a good 11 miles as my fallback mileage (I love running “only” 11 miles!). Good average pace, but baaaaaaad chaffing on my bra-line 🙁 A seminar meant that I got to see people from other pace groups too!