by Blaine Moore | Fitness
At some point in the past few weeks, one of my coworkers saw the “Naked Boys Singing” show. She did not realize that the actors would actually be naked for most of the show. Yesterday, my lifting included 5 sets of military press. Today, I ran first thing...
by Blaine Moore | Books, Reviews, Sports
Once A Runner by John L Parker, Jr is probably my favorite running book and one of my favorite fiction books. I was introduced to this book my freshman year of college on our way to Williams for a meet. One of the upper classmen threw his copy of the book at me and...
by Blaine Moore | Fitness, Personal
Time for another night of 880s in the woods. I forgot my watch at work (after going home at lunch and grabbing it), so for my warm up I ran back to work from the college and then ran to the woods. This was a bit farther than my normal warm up, so I missed the first...
by Blaine Moore | Books, Reviews, Sports
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner is a book that I picked up on a whim a few weeks ago while browsing through a bookstore. The lady and I were waiting to meet some friends down the block and it seemed like a good place to get out of the rain. I...
by Blaine Moore | Run To Win Website
I am beginning to test layout ideas for the website. Obviously, it is in a very rough state at this point, and it is not going to be a huge departure from normal. I only have a few goals I want to flesh out, and then I am going to adapt a skin for the blog to be...
by Blaine Moore | Fitness, Race Results, Sports
The Greater Portland YMCA Back Bay 5k was Friday night. Erin and I ran down to the start as our warmup, and then hobbled our way through the race. The weather (somewhat) cooperated; for a change it was not raining. There are rumors that this afternoon the sun even...
by Blaine Moore | Fitness, Personal
Having finished one phase of my training, the question is whether I should take a little time off before starting the next phase. Two weeks of low-weight, high rep total body workouts, 3 weeks of mid-range reps split into upper/lower (although I skimped on the lower...
by Blaine Moore | Personal
Man, this weather has been awful. May has been an average month in terms of inches of rainfall, but from mid-april through until this week, it has only rained on Wednesdays and weekends. This past weekend it started to rain, and it is not supposed to stop for at least...
by Blaine Moore | Technology
Some things that you find are just too cool. While reading the latest issue of “Make Magazine” (from O’Reilly Press), I saw an article about a cockroach powered robot. The cockroach has no brain, but is basically controlled a bunch of nerve cells...
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