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Here’s VLog #2 for those who are bored with their summer.

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Here is the first in what I plan to be a series of VLOGs on my training for the 2009 Twin Cities Marathon. Sorry its so blah, but oh well. I’ll learn and I’m too lazy to do another one. Plus isn’t doing things in the moment what VLOGing is all about?
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As a sports fan you know its coming. The day when your favorite jersey wearing heroes will unlace the footwear for the final time and walk down the stadium tunnel and out into the parking lot of the rest of their lives. Some will sit behind a desk and explain the details of a box [...]

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Defending something you love is never hard though it can certainly be difficult. People and nations have warred for hundreds of thousands of years without any doubt as to its right. Soldiers and their families will certainly confirm that the battle is not possibly summed up by the narrow meanings of the adjective ‘difficult’. Of [...]

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I love sports.
That is not a revelation for most anyone who knows or has even had a chance encounter with me. I work in sports and I coach sports. I gather my friends around a TV to watch sports in my free time. I spend unlimited night and weekend minutes talking to my dad via [...]

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Christmas morning is somewhat anticlimactic in the Sports Dave household in rural Northern Illinois.  My parents both work blue-collar jobs that generally require them to work on the mornings of nearly every holiday.  So, upon waking up this morning just after ten, the house was quiet.  It would be several hours until my parents returned [...]

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The following is a response to the end of the season championship meet for the team I coach. For actual race details click here.
Running as a competitive sport is very much the forgotten step child of an ESPN generation. Though millions of Americans toe the line at turkey trots, reindeer runs, independence day 5ks, and [...]

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After an amazing weekend which included an all expense paid flight and two nights in deluxe accommodations, I took to the streets of Chicago for my fifth marathon. Everything that you could imagine a top notch marathon experience would provide was met and nearly exceeded by the 2008 Bank of America Chicago Marathon. It is [...]

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On Sunday (hopefully, not bloody Sunday) I will run in the Bank of America Chicago Marathon. For those unaware, this is one of the four Marathon Majors, i.e. this is a big deal. The other three are held in New York, Boston, and Berlin. The cache is full for the race as 37,000 entries have [...]

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After Trey’s lovely introduction to our new blog, I’ll begin with our first post of content with a race report from the 27th running of the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon which ran last Sunday.
Following my inaugural attempt at conquering the beast in last year’s 26th running of the TCM, I was determined to have a [...]

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