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Tag Archives: James Adams
Bin Bags at Dawn
Ideally, I would have commandeered my son. At just shy of two year’s old he has hit 11kg and is tall enough to sit comfortably on my shoulders. But the problem is that he wriggles so much that it’s hard enough … Continue reading
Come in No. 83, your time is up
If you want to know how not to prepare for the race of your life you could do worse than read Michael Hutchinson’s delightful (and delightfully funny) book on his attempt to break the hour record on a bike. No … Continue reading
Usain Bolt, Marcel Proust and the Race Across America
There is more than one thing that Usain Bolt and I don’t have in common, but around about the time that he was false-starting at the World Championships on Saturday, James Adams was crossing the finish-line on Day 70 of … Continue reading
Posted in Race Across America
Tagged 'whatever', carthage, combrage, extension de domaine de la lutte, fireplaces, holiday reading, James Adams, marcel proust, martina cole, michel houllebecq, New York, portugal, running and stuff, steig larsson, street maps, teju cole, usain bolt, west orange
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Meeting the Master
Every runner’s story starts somewhere. A New Year’s Resolution. A bet taken too far, or in Dean Karnazes’s case – ‘bad tequila’. The first time I ever heard of ultra-distance running as something more than an underground cult was in … Continue reading
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Tagged Dean Karnazes, James Adams, Run!, Running across America, Serpentine Running Club, Ultramarathon Man, Why We Run
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Perchance to Dream (with apologies to Jonathan Franzen)
In my day job as a book publisher, we have been taking something of a kicking over the last few year with declining markets and the realisation that our competitors are no longer other publishers but Angry Birds and The Wire. More … Continue reading
