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Archive for December, 2009

Heaven, Hell, and a better way to do things

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Photo by terren in Virginia.
When I was a kid there was a story I used to hear a lot. It was a story about heaven and hell, and it went something like this:
There was a holy man who was caught up in a dream and taken on a tour of heaven and hell. In hell [...]

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Breathing through the nose

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Photo by judhi.
Today I tried out a technique I learnt from Ravi Raman of sethigherstandards.com, applied to running: breathing through your nose.
Sounds weird, right? After all, when running our natural tendency is to breathe through the mouth — whether in through the nose and out through the mouth, as in swimming, or both in and [...]

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