by Tom Stortz | Mar 12, 2024 | General |
I’m at the Encore in Boston typing a quick post to check in with the dozens, errr single digits, of fans. This hotel, owned by Wynn, makes the Borgata seem dated. I’ll take a few pictures throughout and update accordingly with this first class...
by Sam Stortz | Mar 9, 2024 | General |
Let me paint you a picture. It’s Tuesday night. I’ve finished my run, showered, and just had dinner. It’s 7pm. Meghan is at her grandparents in the suburbs because we haven’t moved out yet. The night is mine… WHAT do I do? I find myself...
by Tom Stortz | Feb 29, 2024 | General |
Last May I was in Vienna, Austria sitting by myself in this exact park. The marathon was about to start and I was reading and thinking. You get a lot of time to yourself when you’re in a foreign country/city and don’t know anyone. I’m leaving this...
by Tom Stortz | Feb 27, 2024 | General |
My Frostbite 5 Miler was not as successful as Sam’s. Had I done the race a month earlier, I believe I could have been a minute faster. The few weeks leading up this race, I was in Vegas definitely training hard, and the week prior I was hunched over a wheel for...
by Sam Stortz | Feb 26, 2024 | General |
The Eugene Marathon is in less than 9 weeks. My training since the last update has gone about as well as I could have imagined with my last 5 weeks’ mileage being 68, 68, 70, 70, 69; remarkable consistence. My long run workout last week was a 20 miler with a 15...
by Tom Stortz | Feb 22, 2024 | General |
Here You Go…Man At :45 seconds of this clip, Donald has one of the best interactions with another human being I’ve ever seen. That time when Donald Trump tried working normal jobs at his own hotel pic.twitter.com/g2iluhJeZj — Historic Vids...
by Sam Stortz | Feb 22, 2024 | General |
“The most shocking thing when I started meditating was being given the simple exercise to observe my breath coming in and out of the nostrils, not controlling it, just observing it, and I couldn’t do it for more than 10 seconds. For 10 seconds I would try...
by Tom Stortz | Feb 20, 2024 | General |
I’ve been experimenting with talking reeeeaaaaaaallllll slow. That’s clearly an exaggeration, but the idea is that that the speed you talk has a lot to with how people perceive you. To break down the benefits of talking slow: You force people to listen to...
by Tom Stortz | Feb 15, 2024 | General |
I was reading how to cook a steak in a pan. Not riveting material. At the same time, I was crossing Spring Garden which is a 4 lane road. There were two guys who were 11 paces ahead of me traversing safely. My head was down like a mindless peon and I was going on...
by Sam Stortz | Feb 12, 2024 | General |
I wrote a post about 10 years ago with the following thesis: The stage of life that you’re in is the stage of life that you want to be in. I don’t know what was going on in my life for me to make such a profound statement, but in the 10 years since writing...
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