Author: Beth
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Last Run of 2014
What a year this was! I ran 1802 miles with no major injuries, no major illnesses. I don’t even remember a bad cold in 2014. Even better were the PRs I set. Of course the bar I had set for myself wasn’t all that high, so maybe I just needed a couple of injury free…
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A Good Year
I did a relaxed 7-miler yesterday. Last run of 2013 and as I scanned my training log, it dawned on me that it was the first year in ages that I didn’t have a major injury. My mileage showed it: I logged 1606.35 miles in 2013, my highest mileage year. In 2012 I only eked…
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Doctors Who Understand Runners
A few weeks ago I slept wrong and woke up with a crick in my neck. Just the normal nagging pain that would, in the past, be gone in a couple of days. I went to the chiropractor – my fave practice, Duke Chiropractic on East 38th Street. They worked on my neck several times.…
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Back On My Feet
Done pouting. It’s amazing how quickly one’s attitude changes. One day off and I couldn’t wait to lace up my running shoes. And what a perfect morning. The park was gorgeous – peak autumn colors. Lots of friendly faces. I was so happy to be outside. An easy 4.5 miles and by the end I…
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DNF at the New York Marathon
I run because I love it. I love the smooth glide of my gait when I’m at my best – relaxed but running hard. I love the park at odd hours – misty evenings when few people are on the road and I have the sensation that I’m a wild animal just trotting through my…
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Grassroots leaders
Astute change management and communications professionals have long recognized the need to engage social networks in any major change project. Social networks came long before Web 2.0. The best discussion of social networks in the analog world comes from Everett Rogers’ classic book, Diffusion of Innovations. Everett uses concrete examples of change – condom use in…
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Narcissism and social responsibility
I’ve long been an advocate of corporate social responsibility and a believer that the corporation can be an agent for good in the world. Yes the goal of for-profit organizations is to make money and not to give money or time away. But reputation matters. According to BusinessWeek (July 9, 2007) “Reputation is a big…
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A Visit to Wete
Pemba. We’re sitting in the one air-conditioned office at the Ministry of Finance in Chake Chake, the office reserved for the Officer in Charge. We have an appointment to meet Maua, the acting officer in charge, who is handling Bakari’s responsibility while he’s in the UK getting an advanced degree. Maua agreed to take us…
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A Birthday Escape in 2009
Today is my birthday – and spur of the moment last night I decided to go to the best resort on the island – Fundu Lagoon. I had had a bit of a trying day. First a run that made me realize I don’t have the drive to train for this year’s marathon. Not here,…
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Pemba 2009
1 July 2009 KLM flight to Amsterdam. I am off. Gone. The trek has started. It would seem so grandiose to say I have begun a hero’s journey, but it feels as if I am on a mythical quest. A transformation from one stage of my life to another. And that everything I ever thought,…