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Training Stats

The General Update Here I am on the morning of January 1, 2020—the year of the future—closing out 2019’s periodic surgery stats updates. We are officially at the point where I hope that these stats can be reconceptualized as training stats, because I do hope that I have progressed to the time when I can …

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On the Road

Again! Finally! Well, I’m back, sort of.  This morning marked the first morning that I got out of bed, laced up my shoes, and jogged along the Potomac River in over a year. I have officially reached the return to running on the road phase of my recovery. At the moment, I am running in …

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On the Track

Briefly (for Now) I remain very busy. For starters, I think that I have finally decided on a good working structure for this website, so I have begun the process of designing and installing a proper navigation menu for it.  This endeavor takes time on its own, and it has forced me to streamline and …

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On the Tread

And Start Forward I will readily admit that last week’s post was grouchy.  I feel compelled to issue an apology for that because the people who have been managing my medical care and the people close to me, presumably the people who are reading these posts, have consistently expressed concern about my recovery. At the …

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How This Feels

How This Feels It’s a rainy Saturday in Washington, DC, and it is just a few days from my 41st birthday and about ten days from the date of my surgery. I have been in better moods. Last evening, as I was eating dinner with my wife, I sat rather silently, and at one point …

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Welcome Post

Welcome Post Welcome to the indestructible, unavoidable, completely-impossible-to-unpublish page for this website’s blog.  Seriously, I tried everything short of deleting the page altogether to make it disappear from the search results of the many search engines that comb the Internet. History has shown that I am a very bad blogger.  I have tried to maintain …

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