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Tortoise Track Club Franklin Park 8k: Had a blast racing on my old college course

With my birthday last Wednesday, and my traditional run out of the way (it was 28 miles this year), my 2025 for racing has pretty much all wrapped up. This year was pretty disappointing in terms of results: I’m still 10 minutes off my marathon PR, and none of my other races distances were particularly successful

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Harry Potter e l'Ordine della Fenice by J.K. Rowling
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Finalmente lo ho terminato. Mesi e mesi per questo libro. É uno dei miei preferiti de la serie: molta evoluzione di Harry comò personaggio, la introduzione dei molti altri personaggi eccellenti (Tonks, Umbridge,etc), il esercizio de Silenti, e la bat ...more
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This book reminded me a bit of McFarland the movie, although in some ways it was more impressive. Halston, a high-school senior in this book, builds and coaches a cross-country program, nearly from scratch, in South Carolina and attempts to win the s ...more
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"Wow. Great satire ... of French ... of European ... of Western values ... or lack thereof. So well done that the irony often slips by unnoticed. Who the hell are we?

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George R.R. Martin
“Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.”
George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

David  Mitchell
“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

J.K. Rowling
“He must have known I'd want to leave you."
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

George R.R. Martin
“all men are fools, and all men are knights, where women are concerned.”
George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

David  Mitchell
“This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.”
David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

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