the foco dad
a stay-at-home dad muses about raising his two children
Category: Running
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A couple weeks ago I took my third crack at this notoriously difficult half marathon course. It was the ninth half marathon I’ve raced (darn it, I really thought I was in the double digits by now) and this time around I was not pleased with my performance. I’ll write a bit more about that…
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What I see when London participates in sports is a mind that wants to go faster, a face that believes in her ability, but a body that isn’t quite there yet. It’s a real thing that some studies suggest 50% of autistic children deal with and it is called hypotonia (low muscle tone). Autism Parenting…
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It’s race week! Time to panic, I mean, spend all week trying not to panic about the upcoming race even though I’ve spent the last three months gearing up for it, which, this year, is a big one––the Horsetooth Half Marathon. If you know anything about this race, you know its distance isn’t really the…
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I run out of patience with my kids when I don’t run. It was years ago when I realized that running had become an essential ingredient in my self-care. I had not run for several days and I had a short fuse with everybody. In the middle of yelling at the kids I was chastising…
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Trail running. I have always loved it. One might think that living in Denver for 15 years provided a lot of trail running opportunities. Well, if that’s the case, you just don’t know Denver. It is a shockingly flat city and spread out. Omaha has more undulation and hills than metro Denver. Truly. I have…
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When I look at my map on CityStrides, I see progress, hours of running, thousands of miles, and quite a bit of time spent mapping out a six mile run, ensuring that I spend as much of those six miles on brand new blocks. The thing that irritates me more than anything though are whole…
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How do you sum up a year? I have in the past, written blog posts under the title “The Year in Review,” or something along those lines. I started writing such a thing a couple days ago and I finished today, but it’s too long. I post the whole review and not many people are…
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A couple of weeks ago, the family gathered for a reunion, one that my Grandma Suzi played a role in planning, but one that she did not make it to. She passed away in June after an amazing 91 years on Earth. Naturally, part of the reunion weekend turned into a memorial for her,…
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Since I threw it out there that I was going for a sub-40 10k time in this year’s BolderBoulder, it is with some disappointment and a lot of frustration that I now have to report there was no sub-40 time from me on Monday. I am still thinking about all that went wrong early Monday morning…