Category: Doing

  • MARATHON TRAINING UPDATE: EXTREME MILEAGE EDITION

    When my right ankle bal­looned three weeks ago, I thought my marathon train­ing was over. I knew that the doc­tors would rec­om­mend that I rest and take anti-inflam­ma­to­ries, which I did, but I nev­er expect­ed it to work to the degree it has. Some­times it’s great to be sur­prised, eh? After run­ning the Philadel­phia Dis­tance…

  • BMIML NEWS AND NOTES

    A few quick updates in the my post-run haze: I’ve been noti­fied that my favorite afford­able eatery in New York City, Bur­ri­toville, has closed uncer­e­mo­ni­ous­ly. I grieve the loss as it not only offered sus­te­nance, but a con­ve­nient meet­ing place on the rare occa­sion I vis­it­ed the city. RIP.  [via Ner­vous Acid] The new Drones…

  • I RAN A HALF MARATHON

    I ran the Philadel­phia Dis­tance Run yes­ter­day. I fin­ished in 1:44:38, neg­a­tive-split­ting from the 10K point for­ward. I fin­ished at a 7:59 mile pace! My Nike Plus Sport­band alleges that I still haven’t finished. The Philadel­phia Dis­tance Run fell at the halfway point between the offi­cial start of my train­ing and the Philadel­phia Marathon. I…

  • SOLANGE!

    Solange Knowles, orig­i­nal­ly uploaded by Black­mail Is My Life. Yes­ter­day I rode my bike over to Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege of Philadel­phia to check out MTV’s Rock the Vote show. Solange was the big high­light for me. She played five songs, includ­ing “Sand­cas­tle Dis­co” and “I Decid­ed.” Her band was great, the back­up singers were real­ly fun…

  • MOVE TO TRASH: THE STREETS — “EVERYTHING IS BORROWED”

    I’m going to start “Move to Trash” as a recur­ring fea­ture for new albums that are big let­downs. First up? The Streets’ lat­est album, Every­thing Is Bor­rowed. As I com­ment­ed on Stere­ogum’s Pre­ma­ture Eval­u­a­tion post, fame has not been kind to Mike Skin­ner. Like his last album, The Hard­est Way to Make an Easy Liv­ing,…