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What can you accomplish in 60 minutes?
The Useless Runner
Sep 13, 20242 min read
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Lost
Frustration [noun] - /frʌˈstreɪʃn/ "The emotion felt when one's expectations are not met." My main motto in life has been to always be...
The Useless Runner
Jun 7, 20248 min read
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Make it your own
Faith [noun] ~ /feɪθ/ "Firm belief in something for which there is no proof." Read along as you play this tune. It's worth it. Lately, I...
The Useless Runner
Mar 12, 20243 min read
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Hasta siempre, Papá
Dejar ir ~ [expresión] "Aceptar la realidad de la pérdida y permitirse sentir el dolor mientras se libera la necesidad de aferrarse al...
The Useless Runner
Oct 21, 20234 min read
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So long, Dad
Let go [expression] ~ /lɛt ɡəʊ/ "Allow someone or something to escape or go free." Hello Dad, This moment has played out in my head a...
The Useless Runner
Oct 21, 20233 min read
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Lance
Horror [noun] ~ /ˈhɒrə/ "An attack of extreme nervousness or anxiety." I am going to start with a cliché. Confucius said: “We have two...
The Useless Runner
Apr 28, 20238 min read
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The race that never was
Pity [noun] ~ /ˈpɪti/ "a cause for regret or disappointment." 2022 was a tough year for me. I fought all kind of obstacles trying to push...
The Useless Runner
Mar 7, 20233 min read
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El ultimo adiós. Una elegía.
Huérfano [sustantivo] “Un niño cuyos padres están muertos.” Traducido por: Andres E. Jimenez M. La última vez que todos estuvimos juntos,...
The Useless Runner
Jan 29, 20236 min read
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Adios, Pete.
Que alivio! ~ Expresión. "Estar contento de que alguien o algo se haya ido." Translated by: Andres E. Jimenez M. Esta es una publicación...
The Useless Runner
Jan 27, 20235 min read
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Los 12 minutos del infierno
Darlo todo [adjetivo] "Hecho con el máximo esfuerzo". Traduccion por Andres Enrique Jimenez Mi papá siempre decía: "En lo poco, se conoce...
The Useless Runner
Jan 17, 20232 min read
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When things go wrong
This week something happened to me. Something that never in our wildest dreams we could have imagined.
The Useless Runner
Feb 28, 20214 min read
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Fighting your demons
When I jumped in the River Thames at 7:10 in the morning on June 16 2019 for my first ever Olympic Triathlon race, I froze.
The Useless Runner
Jan 30, 20216 min read
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Now what? - The post-race blues
When I crossed the line of my first Ironman 70.3 Race, it suddenly came to me like a ton of bricks. Now what?.
The Useless Runner
Jan 27, 20213 min read
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My friend, Mr. Ice Cream
Gluttony [noun] ~ /ˈɡlʌt(ə)ni/ "habitual greed or excess in eating." So, where do I start with this one. I will start with a very simple...
The Useless Runner
Jan 22, 20216 min read
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Good Bye, Pete.
Good riddance ~ Expression. "To be pleased that someone has left or that something has gone." This is a hard post to write, because of...
The Useless Runner
Dec 28, 20205 min read
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The magic pill of weight loss, and the Yo-Yo effect
Magic ~ /ˈmadʒɪk/ noun : "The power of apparently influencing events by using mysterious or supernatural forces". I am over 4 decades...
The Useless Runner
Dec 24, 20203 min read
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That 14th of October
So there I was. Going through my adulthood and doing all the things human beings are supposed to be doing. I had a job, a family, got a...
The Useless Runner
Dec 10, 20203 min read
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Who am I?, My Useless Runner story.
Ever since I can remember, I was a fat kid. Nothing wrong with that, is something I pretty much accepted as part of who I was. How does...
The Useless Runner
Dec 9, 20202 min read
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