Category: Running

How i learned to stop worrying and love the rain

Nov 28, 2024

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Ben East

in Family, Holidays, Running, Thanksgiving, Uncategorized

Well, race day is here and I can finally stop obsessing about this. For at least ten days I’ve watched cold trade with rain for which element would cause the most pain at today’s Manchester Road Race. Last week we were looking at a dry low thirties and I commented, That’s better than a wet…
And They’re Off!

Oct 20, 2024

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Ben East

in Family, Government Studies, Non-Fiction, NPS, Politics, Running, Virginia, War

I headed down off the knoll and onto the course, tracking my son’s progress along fields of long-buried soldiers and lost, dud ordnance, gamely chasing a PR in the glory of his youth.