Health

A return to the water

Until a few weeks ago, it had been a while since I’d done any serious swimming. I first got into it in grad school, when I took a swim class with a fantastic coach in UC Berkeley’s gorgeous marble-decked pool. Learning to swim properly has been more useful than a lot of other things I [...]

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My first 10K

About six or seven months ago, I took up running. Portland Winters are wet and gloomy, and I’d started to feel a little stir crazy being inside all the time, so I picked up this excellent book called Outdoor Fitness. I highly recommend it. It’s not about running per se, but more about integrating exercise [...]

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