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Boston Beard 2024 week 5 — rage against the algorithm

July 22, 2024 by Brent

Garmin

If Garmin had a metric for how attached a user is to data, I would be categorized as unhealthy. I pay too much attention to every statistic for each run. And almost never in a positive way. My pace, heart rate, training effect, etc. all swirl around in my head. I look at the overall […]

Filed Under: 2024 Boston Beard Tagged With: fitness, Garmin, goals, marathon, marathon training, motivation, race, run, runner, running, running metrics, strava, training

Is it possible to become a morning person?

January 25, 2021 by Brent

morning person

A glance to my right revealed the first rays of sunlight above the eastern horizon. Immediately I smiled and picked up my running pace slightly. Something about the witnessing the sun’s entrance into the day energizes me. There is a long, flat (mostly) road that runs through a future neighborhood just north of my house. […]

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: how to become a morning person, morning person, motivation, opt outside, run, runner, running, strava, sunrise, sunrise chaser, training

My 12 days of Christmas Strava segments

December 28, 2020 by Brent

Strava segments

Finishing the final run of my 12 days of Strava segments, Christmas Day at Floyd Lamb Park. It’s the final month of 2020. A pandemic has turned the world upside down for most of the year. Finding training motivation has been difficult, and most races have either postponed or cancelled completely. Boston did both. Widespread […]

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Brent Shirley My name is Brent Shirley, and I'm a stay-at-home dad with experience writing and selling running shoes. Married to a surgeon (she's much smarter than me). Certified RRCA running coach and 11 time Boston Marathon qualifier (2015-25, although I missed the cut in 2015-16). 50 sub 4 finisher.

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