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WILLIAM HAZEL
Feb 21, 20225 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20214 min read
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 14, 20216 min read
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, 20215 min read
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 17, 20213 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20216 min read
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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