By L.J. on January 7, 2011
If you haven’t heard yet, Chase, and other banks, have started on their plans to charge their customers yet more fees. (One of many articles on that here.) I’ve been chased by Chase most of my money-earning life. My first bank – BankOne. I moved to Chicago, got a local Chicago account, ultimately at First [...]
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By L.J. on January 5, 2011
Just a brief note, because I’ve been intending to sit and write for awhile – and have even started a few blog posts – but have later realized I needed to do a lot of editing. A few years ago, a friend of mine said to me, while mired deep in daily posts to LiveJournal, [...]
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By L.J. on July 24, 2010
Oh my goodness – staying with my training schedule is really hard with a new internship and class! I don’t know how people do it without falling over! Early mornings seem too early, evenings seem too warm (mostly) and require more energy than I feel I have! I just had to whine a bit. I’ve [...]
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By L.J. on July 15, 2010
I managed to injure my right heel during my trail run enough to convince me to wear my Brooks Adrenaline GTS 10 for a “fast” run last night. This was my first real run after my race and hiking, back in my neighborhood. I’ve decided to consider trading in my FiveFinger Sprints due to the [...]
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By L.J. on May 18, 2010
Yesterday I did a long slow run, though because my Garmin Forerunner 405CX was uncharged (oops!), I ended up getting out my old Polar F11 and Nike + SportBand to do my run. This meant doing a lot of manual entry into the Garmin system. This also meant that I was missing some data, like [...]
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