Limits and Limitless

 By: Unknown    Sunday, February 16, 2014  Boston Marathon, college, david foster wallace, dfw, infintie jest, running, writing   No comments

"THE MAN WHO KNOWS HIS LIMITATIONS HAS NONE" - Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace As an English student of occasionally the most pretentious variety, I've always wanted to study Infinite Jest at school. I spent the summer before freshman year trudging through the almost-1,100 pages, 388 footnotes, and I can only describe the experience as the best kind of overwhelming. DFW's ability to create the strangest, most...

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Training at Home

 By: Unknown    Tuesday, January 14, 2014     No comments

Somehow winter break seems to feel simultaneously too long and not at all long enough. The week between Christmas and New Year's seemed to drag on, and I found myself increasingly missing BC. I'm not sure what happened or what exactly I did, but before I could even realize it, the final day of break arrived and there was an overwhelming amount of things I had been avoiding. A mountain of laundry, growing at an alarming speed...

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Where'd you go, 2013?

 By: Unknown    Thursday, January 02, 2014     No comments

Every adult seems to say it -- that the years pass more quickly, that daily you'll be questioning where has the year gone, that you won't even realize that suddenly it's the second half of the year and you won't know what you've done and what you'll do. Whether time compresses or accelerates I'll never know, but it seems impossible that it's 365 days have passed since I celebrated New Year's Eve with chubby post-wisdom teeth...

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Running Christmas List

 By: Unknown    Tuesday, December 24, 2013  Boston Marathon, christmas, christmas list, marathon, running   No comments

It's been increasingly difficult to create a Christmas list as I've gotten older. No more lengthy lists requiring endless mall visits or early morning wrapping for mom and dad. For what else could I really ask, you know? With a great school, wonderful family and friends, and plenty of traditions, there isn't much I need or want. When my parents ask for gift ideas, I can't offer them more than a few book titles or a bow tie suggestions....

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Beyond Words

 By: Unknown    Thursday, December 19, 2013  boston 2014, Boston Marathon, college, marathon, running, writing   No comments

It is with great relief that I say the semester is over. Finals finished. Trek home completed. While I wish I could say this semester has been easy, it's been anything but easy, what with a fairly demanding course schedule, marathon training, being heavily involved at BC. For as stressed and as exhausted as I might have been at times, I'd say that it was worth it all. Worth the long runs on some struggles of Sundays and the paper...

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Running from, Running for

 By: Unknown    Wednesday, December 11, 2013  Boston Marathon, marathon, running   No comments

Since we were young we have been taught to run. To run from whoever is "it," to run for the ball, to run for first base, to run from the monsters, to run for cover. It seems to go deeper than that though -- our fight-or-flight instinctive is the foundation of it all. Running is an ultimately human response, a reflection of something at our very core.  Whether anyone admits it or not, we all have something from which to...

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