Category Archives: Running

The Runner

By Justin | February 27, 2009

In. The first breath of crisp air is the trumpet that begins the march. Down the stairs, down the hill, and into the darkness. Descending into the nighttime world where lonely cars carrying lonely drivers cross lonely roads in search of a destination. The traffic lights too lazy to steady themselves, flash their yellow and [...]

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Sensory recollections from a gusty jog

By Justin | November 15, 2008

I’m off. Down Beach Street, a bit of friction missing between my shoes and the wet, leaf-covered pavement. As I round the bend, the wind sweeps at my back and I hear the rainwater trickle and fall into the storm drain across the street. Warwick Street. The wind picks up as I cross High Street, [...]

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Running routes for the coming school year

By Justin | August 11, 2008

Since 35 Home Ave. (where I’m living this year) is pretty much as far across campus as one can get from 324 Washington St. (where I was living last year), I had to make some tough choices: running choices. Where am I to run this year? Well, I thought about it. I checked out Google [...]

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A day of thoughts, both big and small

By Justin | February 6, 2008

It was actually two days of thoughts, big and small, but I really only remember the things that happened today, so I’m going to just blend them all into one. As you may guess, this is going to be one of those rambling stream-of-consciousness entries that jumps from topic to topic as they come to [...]

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A beautiful day; or, Justin vomits

By Justin | February 3, 2008

NOTE: If you don’t want to read about vomit, skip this entry. Today was a beautiful day to go running. It was sunny and bright—a crystal blue sky—and 51º. The traffic over the bridge was light since it was Sunday, and I could see pretty far in the distance, letting me see the topography of [...]

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Short remarks as the semester begins

By Justin | January 22, 2008

It’s 10 o’clock the night before classes begin; I’m feeling pretty good. Tomorrow I have Order and Planning in the History of Economic Thought, as well as Politics and Piety in Early Christianities. Tommy pointed out that the Christianities class is a discussion-based course with only twenty students. ::Gulp:: I need to work on that [...]

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The obligatory status-of-my-life entry

By Justin | November 15, 2007

Meh. Not much has been happening lately. I skipped Latin this morning, which was bad. But I was so sleepy! I still had yet to fully recover from the all-nighter I had pulled the night before, which in the end was pretty pointless, because the paper I wrote on-and-off during that night spent awake didn’t [...]

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