The other day, I was scheduled to do a joggling speed workout. It was supposed to feature two 1600 meter runs at a 6:30/mile pace with an 800m easy run in between.
In my pre-retired days, it would’ve been easy enough to just get on the treadmill and do the distances there. But I [...]
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Here are just a few quick updates of things going on in the joggling world. More evidence that the sport is gaining in popularity. We may see a day when joggling gets officially added as an Olympic sport.
+ Julian Tam reports that he joggled the Bay and Back 5K race in Hamilton, Canada. [...]
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This is part of a series of posts answering the oft asked question, “Why Do You Joggle?”
While cleaning out my desk I stumbled across my old high school journals. There was an entry from September 3, 1985 in which I wrote…
I gotta do something that people will remember…I want everyone to have some sort [...]
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This is part of a series of posts answering the oft asked question, “Why Do You Joggle?“
Running is lonely.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s nice to have alone time, but when you’re out there pounding the pavement for hours at a time, you start to feel numb. You begin to look for people. [...]
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We first mentioned David Livingston last month when he reported that he was attempting to joggle for 18 hours.
Well, that event happened over the past weekend so you might be wondering how he did.
The crack reporting staff here at JYAJ searched high and low for the results and is happy to report that they’ve found [...]
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It’s funny. I write a post about retiring, say I’m not retiring from joggling, and then don’t write anything for a week. Rest assured, I haven’t retired from joggling or writing this blog. I was just on a trip to Florida (Orlando) and didn’t have much time or motivation to write. [...]
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Alright, as mentioned previously I’m going to Lexington, Kentucky to participate in the 2008 World Joggling Championship races.
Since this event features much shorter distances than the marathon, it will require a different kind of training program. To create it, I headed over to Runner’s World and used their Smart Coach tool. I used [...]
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Last Wednesday, I had the privilege of being recorded for a piece on the television show 190 North. It’s a Chicago show that does stories about unique places, things and people around the city and suburbs.
I met the reporter and TV crew at North Avenue beach and we spent about an hour filming various shots [...]
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Joggling is truly an international sport. Here’s an amusing anecdote from our South African joggler Flurpy.
10 K Joggling Report
I did this 10k today in Grabouw, a small town near Cape Town, famous for it’s beef sausage (”boerewors”) and apples. The sponsor of this race is one of the apple farms, so all runners [...]
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At long last, the race write-up for the London Marathon. It seems I had a lot to say about this race. I’ll have to break it up into 3 different parts.
Joggling the London Marathon
As Fred Flintstone passed, the tinitus buzzed in my ear. It was like he hit me with a club [...]
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