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	<title>Zero to Boston &#187; The Mental Struggle</title>
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	<description>My Quest to run the Boston Marathon and observations made of the running sub-culture along the way.</description>
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		<title>The Jackass Kick</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indirectly relevant photo by QuietDelusions courtesy of Flickr.
A burst of speed at the end of a marathon is exceedingly rare, but it happened to me once. Usually, one can’t summon late race heroics from weary muscles. But there I was at the Myrtle Beach Marathon feeling relatively fresh at mile 24. As I passed fading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sister Intensity and the Riven Cerebrum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dean.schuster</dc:creator>
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I’m not a natural athlete. I recall a day in seventh grade gym class when I forgot my shorts and sneakers. I asked the PE teacher if I could run the 100 yard dash anyway. Looking upon me with prescient pity, he allowed it. Twenty yards later, the pencils and magic markers flopped out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So anyway, I had this dream&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dean.schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran a hilly marathon under grey skies, headed toward the center of a dreary town. 
I recognized the blight from my youth. This was my boyhood home, Waterbury, Connecticut. Once a bustling industrial powerhouse, Waterbury boasted giant factories and the promise of modernity. It was quite literally the brass capital of the world; until [...]]]></description>
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