WILLIAM HAZEL
October Haikus - Daily haiku by the numbers
A daily haiku practice through the month of October. The date being the prompt word for each day's entry. cedarwood incense first eve...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Oct 27, 2022
- 5 min
Running With The Wicked
A costumed race unmasked It's one of those crazy costume races held near Halloween. I'm dressed as a vintage pilot, sans leather jacket,...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Oct 17, 2022
- 5 min
Reflecting on Something in the Water - The best thing that ever happened to Virginia Beach
My blood boiled cold when I read the emails. I don’t remember a specific time when nor a place where I first heard the Virginia Beach...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Sep 15, 2022
- 5 min
Lessons of a Self-Published Book Journey
I wrote a book. Then I self-published the book. These are two very different things, with few crossover skills. The process took much...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Sep 1, 2022
- 3 min
How Yoga Ended My Back Pain In Six Months
An eighteen-wheeler introduced me to real pain. After suffering a major trauma in a collision with a vehicle ten times bigger than my...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- May 12, 2022
- 4 min
Strolling the Old Beach Farmers Marker - A No Mask Outing to Another Dimension
No masks. That's the revelation today. And it feels weird. It feels amazing, but weird. I thought I'd have a crest the top roller coaster...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Mar 24, 2022
- 7 min
Running the 50th Anniversary Shamrock Marathon Weekend - Three takeaways from returning to a big run
It overwhelmed me for a moment while standing in the middle of the Virginia Beach Convention Center. That subtle mix of anxiety and...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Feb 21, 2022
- 5 min
The Three Stages of Running - and Why Stage 3 is My Favorite
It was the simplest expression of how the meaning of running changes and evolves through your life I had ever heard. And it brought one...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Feb 1, 2022
- 5 min
Beyond Mile 20 – Three Lessons of the Marathon
I had never run a step beyond 20 miles. That was my limit. That was the longest of my long runs. Like many first-time marathoners, I had...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Nov 30, 2021
- 4 min
Celebrating A Running Anniversary
I knew my life had changed when the young man in the turkey suit onesie whooshed past. I was excited to be running in my very first road...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Oct 15, 2021
- 6 min
Ghosts of Thoroughgood Past - Taking A Ghost Tour in Virginia Beach
It is a place of age. A place of time. And of a kind of timelessness. We approached the Thoroughgood House, my wife and I, with a quiet...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Oct 6, 2021
- 5 min
Doing Yoga at Home - Three Great Resources
Yoga changed my life ten years ago. The transformation, of course, didn’t occur in the first class. The process of personal metamorphosis...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Jun 18, 2021
- 3 min
Global Running Day - Or Just Running With Neighborhood Friends Day
Global Running Day felt like a neighborhood run and I'm glad. My wife and I joined a hundred or so runners for a rainy jaunt along our...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Apr 1, 2021
- 5 min
Trauma the Teacher - Three Life Lessons of Trauma
A tractor trailer changed everything. A split second in time when the truck’s wheels grazed the center line at the same moment my small...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Jan 22, 2021
- 6 min
Why Lazarus Lake's Great Virtual Race Across Tennessee is the Perfect Model for Virtual Racing
As the COVID-19 Crisis spread across the US, it left both runners and running race organizers scrambling to unriddle the mystery of how...
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