I have been read­ing the book Born to Run over the past few days and have been absolutely mes­mer­ized with all that I’m dis­cov­er­ing in it. One of the “learn­ings” (quotes because the rea­sons aren’t new, just hit­ting home through the run­ning topic of the book) is that so many of the top ultra­run­ners eat […]

I walked over a mile yes­ter­day, and it felt quite good. When I started out I wasn’t feel­ing that great — my left butt mus­cles and leg were doing their usu­ally cramp­ing and sci­at­ica. How­ever, around a mile into it, I began to feel the strangest sen­sa­tions. I was walk­ing nor­mally — kick­ing my left […]

My wife likes to tell her friends that sleep­ing with me is like sleep­ing with Darth Vader. And it’s not because of the black cape I wear to bed, either. It’s, my breath­ing, with a full mask and hose going to my CPAP machine. The machine is very quite — the most quiet on the market […]

I usu­ally wake up around 7am these days, hav­ing to go to the bath­room. The first thing I notice is pain in my left butt and leg as well as my lower back. On top of that, my belly feels com­pletely full of air, as do my intestines. I’m usu­ally bloated from the CPAP (con­tin­u­ous positive […]

I’ve vis­ited quite a num­ber of Peet’s loca­tions over the years. My friends and col­leagues joke that I have an inter­nal Peet’s loca­tor, as I always seem to know where the clos­est Peet’s is. I seek them out on my trav­els and love to dis­cover newer loca­tions, which usu­ally have more com­fort­able seat­ing, bet­ter designs, […]

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