Tag: essays

All the articles with the tag "essays".

• DR Recovery: At Sea

  2 Jul, 2012

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  A funny thing happened over the past few weeks. I’ve had post after post started concerning the Death Race, yet I couldn’t finish any of them. There

• DR 2012: Cheaters (and Brats) Never Prosper

  20 Jun, 2012

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  As we began the 6hr drive back to Philly from Vermont, I broke out my legal pad and a pen and began to list all the tasks we completed in the 2012 D

• Death Race by the Numbers

  19 Jun, 2012

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  Total time to finish: 60 hours, 23 minutes Place: 2nd female Total approximate distance covered: 50-70 miles (depending on who you talk to) Clif bar

• The Betrayal Has Begun

  10 Jun, 2012

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  When I signed up for the Death Race back in December, I remember talking to a previous Death Race finisher and asking about the race. “What is it?”

• Crossfit + Obstacles = Combine Love

  24 May, 2012

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  When you take three of my current obsessions (Crossfit, obstacles, and hills) and roll them up into one race, I may start foaming at the mouth out o

• S.E.R.E. Urban: Chicago is a Dangerous Place

  14 May, 2012

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  I’ve spent the last few days trying to figure out practical uses for my shiny new KA-Bar,* spoils of being crowned “Top Team” at S.E.R.E. Chicago th

• Used and Abused: The Essentials

  15 Apr, 2012

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  My body hates me. There isn’t a day where I’m not nursing some type of sore muscle, blister, injury, or rash of some sort (yum). If you know me, you

• Everyday I’m Shufflin’

  20 Mar, 2012

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  I posed the question this past weekend: “Which is harder to describe, the Death Race or a GoRuck Challenge?” Obviously, to the average person, both

• Winter Death Race: FAQ’s

  6 Mar, 2012

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  Post-Winter Death Race, I’ve received tons of questions about the race, my experience, and life in general. I do not claim any special DR knowledge–

• 32 hours and 21 minutes

  6 Mar, 2012

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  A stump almost broke me. I was finished chopping my wood and stacking it, except for this bastard of a stump about 3 feet in diameter, knotted to he

• These races should be everything I hate

  24 Feb, 2012

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  T-minus one week til Winter Death Race. And I feel like I’m missing something. It’s this weird nagging feeling, that something isn’t exactly right.

• Adventures in Urban Training: Wood Chopping

  9 Feb, 2012

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  The Winter Death Race is three weeks away. I have never swung an axe. Now would be about the time to panic, no? There is one thing, and only one thi

• Cashews, Leadership, and Lessons Learned

  1 Feb, 2012

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  [Fair warning: this post may be full of typos and grammatical errors. I’m tired. I’m freakin’ tired. 15+ hour work days, pre- and post-S.E.R.E., hav

• Mission: Unknown

  20 Jan, 2012

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  If you looked up the definition of “creature of habit,” I would be highly surprised if there wasn’t a picture of me sitting there. My alarm goes off

• Volenti non fit injuria

  13 Jan, 2012

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  To the consenting [willing], no injury is done. In the law, the Latin maxim of “volenti non fit injuria” is typically used as a defense in a tort ac

• On Girl Crushes and the Interwebs

  8 Jan, 2012

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  A tangential conversation that took place between my girlfriend and I a few weeks before WTM: GF: “So how are you getting out there?” Me: “We’re dri

• Adventures in Urban Training: Hills

  2 Jan, 2012

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  I live in the middle of a concrete jungle. Picture downtown Chicago, and insert me right there. I live on the 15th floor of a 24-story condo buildin