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October 31, 2009
I love the gym. I love sweating. I love running. I love lifting things. I love feeling my muscles quake.... Confession #12: I'm a gym rat.
Intramural soccer and its silver screen potential.
October 21, 2009
How movies have forever skewed my view of competitive sports.
Ode to Lorain County
April 30, 2009
Lorain County has an amazing set of metro parks all over the county, full of hiking/running paths, lakes, reservoirs, rivers, creeks, waterfalls, natural wetlands, tons of wildlife - and all linked by a bikeable set of country highways that make up the Back Roads and Beaches route.
On Team Sports and Team Shirts
April 19, 2009
Incredibly disillusioned by my middle school experience--finishing my season on the second string basketball team with a total of two rebounds and a steal--I was hopeful that college could renew my muddled notions about playing basketball for something bigger than myself.
No fair weather runners here
February 8, 2009
There we were, plodding along side by side on the icy streets of Oberlin, snow soaking in through the mesh of our running shoes, brisk wind turning our limbs rosy red, winter sun on our faces.
Running Down the Dream (running down Professor Street, actually)
November 28, 2008
My running log for Tuesday, Nov. 11 says "cold run, 3.5 miles in 25:36. Ran through the Arb, ran to North Fields, back along Woodland." This is not the whole story.
Trying on a race director's cap
November 13, 2008
On those runs, I reflected a lot on the love that's developed in me over the last three years for the town of Oberlin, and I began working out ideas in my head about how to connect more with the local community.
Street Cricket in Singapore
September 14, 2008
Here in this tiny island nation Chinese, Indian, Malay, Europeans, and many others seem to live together in a harmony not often seen.
Bowling, Oberlin Style
April 3, 2008
I usually don't like bowling at all. (This might be just because I am exceptionally bad at it.) But last night, I had a good time.
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