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  • November By The Numbers

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    I've been fighting a rear-guard action all month. I think it was my second-biggest month of the year, mileage-wise. 28 days of running and only 2 days off. Last week I ran 50 miles. But where I was on the 621 Plan for the' [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:15pm EST
    by Lance P. Martin

  • And on Friday, they ate Gumbo.

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    I don't think my mom ever made turkey gumbo and neither did I. It's not that we weren't a gumbo family. We put the "um" in gumbo. We didn't have gumbo on the day of Thanksgiving because we had gumbo on Thanksgiving. There was always' [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 6:00pm EST
    by Lance P. Martin

  • On the Duality of Sweet Potato Casserole

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    It's the question that has bedeviled Thanksgiving cooks for generations: Should you put marshmallows on the sweet potatoes? For years, I have been about as ambivalent about marshmallows as the Ghostbusters. But that was before I found this recipe in Saveur, which answers that age-old [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 5:50pm EST
    by Lance P. Martin

  • Thanksgiving 2009 Post-Mortem

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    The electric smoker -- it's the only way to go for Thanksgiving turkey. For starters, let's concede that turkey can only be so good. That's why you make gravy or cranberry sauce, or both. The only qualm I had about my bird was that it [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 5:42pm EST
    by Lance P. Martin

  • Who's Brining Now?

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    Vo2Max and I made our brine last night (apple cider, brown sugar, kosher salt, ginger, garlic, oranges, bay leaves, and cloves) and we submerged our thawed bird this morning for a 24-hour bath. It's going to be just the three of us tomorrow, so I'm going to try cooking her' [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:39am EST
    by Lance P. Martin

  • Admiralable.

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    We finally made it out to The Admiral in West Asheville (Haywood Road), and it was only fitting that we did so on Veterans Day. The last time I saw a building like that, Tom Hanks was hurling a grenade into it. It's a little cinder-block bunker off the side [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:45pm EST
    by Lance P. Martin

  • Boston Panic!

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    Since I know you are all like me, you started your day with some sun salutations and then you read the New York Times and then chatted in the eGullet forums before making your way to marathonguide.com where you freaked out when you saw this:
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:05pm EST
    by Lance P. Martin

  • A Real Chest Thumper.

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    I did a real chest-thumper of a run on Wednesday. I was coming off a Tuesday track session where I did 12 x 200s and my legs were a little rubbery. It was a blustery day -- gray, 40s, plenty of wind, cloudy -- but I had a mid-week, mid-range [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:03am EST
    by Lance P. Martin

  • Something healthy.

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    The TW picked me up for lunch yesterday, and I said: "Where do you want to go?" She replied: "I don't know. Something healthy." I said: "How about 12 Bones?" She said: "Word!" After all, is there anything healthier than blueberry-chipotle glazed pork ribs? Well,' [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:33am EST
    by Lance P. Martin

  • The Man Who Stared at Goats

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    These trail runners, they are like mountain goats. They just go and go and go straight up the side of the mountain. But perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start earlier in the week. I'm on the local ultra-running email list and I get [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:35pm EST
    by Lance P. Martin

  • One Great Birthday Cake

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    It has been almost a month since I baked a cake for the TW's birthday party, but despite the slippage of time, I wanted to post the recipe. It comes from Dorie Greenspan's "Baking: From My Home to Yours." It's a traditional bake sale special.' [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:15pm EST
    by Lance P. Martin

  • Asheville Chow: Tod's Tasties

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    Tod's Tasties, the red-roofed cafe with the peculiar name, occupies the corner of Montford and Pearson, just past the Chamber of Commerce and across from the former location of Pisgah Legal Services. I have run by there for months and wondered what kind of action' [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:21pm EST
    by Lance P. Martin

  • Mid-Week, Mid-Day.

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    I slipped out on Wednesday for an oldie but goodie -- the Town Mountain Ridge run. This is an 8-miler from my house that takes me up 4 slow, muscle-building miles to the top of Town Mountain, then back down for 4 scorching, turnover-improving miles. [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:48pm EST
    by Lance P. Martin

  • Au Revoir, Happy French Man.

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    I didn't want to write -- I didn't want to believe it -- but Paris Bakery has closed. Sometime in the late summer, they posted a sign that indicated they were on vacation. It is now clear that the vacation is permanent. What a loss. [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:25pm EST
    by Lance P. Martin

  • Visiting the Source

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    What better way to spend a crisp Saturday than seeing where your bacon comes from? Hickory Nut Gap Farms, about 20 minutes from downtown, is a remarkable story -- a success for both farm economics and the locavore movement. Hickory Nut Gap raises pigs humanely [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:01pm EST
    by Lance P. Martin

  • Meb!

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    How do you spell motivation? M-E-B! How about Meb Keflezighi's performance in today's New York City Marathon? Just 1st place, just a dagger in the heart of Kenya Nation, just the first American to win the race since 1982. And he was wearing the black [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 7:35pm EST
    by Lance P. Martin

  • October By the Numbers

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    I took 11 rest days in October. Sue me.

    You can call me Mr. October. On the 11th day of the 10th month of the 9th year of running, I finally ran a Boston-Qualifying time. I'd say that's enough excitement for one month. The rest [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 6:13pm EST
    by Lance P. Martin
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