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		<title>The First Four Weeks: Marathon 2010 Training Update #1</title>
		<link>http://www.markemmanuel.com/2010/07/05/the-first-four-weeks-marathon-2010-training-update-1</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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The first four weeks of Chicago Marathon training has come to a close.  I learned a lot in the past few weeks. Each piece of knowledge will definitely improve my training.

The new program I am using keeps it interesting and challenges me on different levels. It&#8217;s a foreign way of training to me.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking Independence</title>
		<link>http://www.markemmanuel.com/2010/07/04/seeking-independence</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Ensuring freedom and independence is a long battle.  The sacrifice is high but the rewards are endless.  The thirteen colonies fought five year long years before ensuring freedom from England.  They faced many ups and downs during until the United States of America was formed to ensure freedoms and rights mentioned in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Numbers and Calculators. A Spiritual Exercise.</title>
		<link>http://www.markemmanuel.com/2010/06/08/numbers-and-calculators-spiritual-exercises</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So there are a bunch of numbers floating and zipping around in my head.  I threw them into online calculators.  A few interesting results occurred at the end.
I ran the 2010 Soldier Field 10 in 1:28:51.  The McMillan running calculator projects that my marathon time would have been 4:08:51.   My 2010 Illinois Marathon goal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super Start to Summer</title>
		<link>http://www.markemmanuel.com/2010/06/03/super-start-to-summer</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer launched on a great note.  Beautiful weather. Beautiful place. Beautiful. Simply beautiful.  The Soldier Field 10 was my almost perfect.  Bike the Drive. The Chicago Blackhawks won the first two games of the the Stanley Cup finals. 
Soldier Field 10
It all started Saturday morning.  The birds sang.  While the sun struggled to wake up, I popped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Epic Weekend in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://www.markemmanuel.com/2010/05/28/epic-weekend-in-chicago</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 14:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s going to be an epic weekend in Chicago consisting of running and cycling.  Here&#8217;s the lowdown&#8230;
Epic Run. The Soldier Field 10 is a run along the lake front Saturday morning from Chicago&#8217;s museum campus south along the Southside portion of the Lakefront Path (one of my all time favorite routes) and back up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Things I Learned Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://www.markemmanuel.com/2010/05/27/five-things-i-learned-wednesday</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 16:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I learned a lot of things on Wednesday.  Here are five of them.
1. Meeting people I follow, listed, or occasionally view on Twitter is a bit  awkward but rewarding. I know a lot about them and I know they&#8217;re awesome.  However, it&#8217;s such an awkward moment to make time to introduce yourself while their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fifth in a Series</title>
		<link>http://www.markemmanuel.com/2010/03/15/the-fifth-in-a-series</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realized that I registered for my fifth marathon last week after chatting with Connie on Twitter.  I never expected to be running marathons after my first one two years ago.  The bug bit me. Now train to go beyond just simply finishing the race.  I&#8217;m training to run better.

Marathons are a test of physical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Triage and Assessment</title>
		<link>http://www.markemmanuel.com/2010/02/05/financial-triage-and-assessment</link>
		<comments>http://www.markemmanuel.com/2010/02/05/financial-triage-and-assessment#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the Federal government went out of their way to bail out large banking institutions in 2009, they decided to leave individual Americans at the mercy of high interest rates that continued to get higher.  I can&#8217;t wait for the government to bail me out so I&#8217;m taking the initiative to do it on my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Day of Thanks</title>
		<link>http://www.markemmanuel.com/2009/11/26/a-day-of-thanks</link>
		<comments>http://www.markemmanuel.com/2009/11/26/a-day-of-thanks#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving day.  My family&#8217;s love and support keeps me going all these years.  Then there are my small circle of friends that I enjoy life with.  I still have my health and the legs under me that help me achieve something I didn&#8217;t think was possible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back from Philly</title>
		<link>http://www.markemmanuel.com/2009/11/24/back-from-philly</link>
		<comments>http://www.markemmanuel.com/2009/11/24/back-from-philly#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visiting Philadelphia was a great trip and an amazing experience as a solo traveler.  I met a lot of friendly people.  I visited places on my itinerary.  The weather stayed sunny for most of the trip.  The hostel I slept in exceeded my expectations.  I was satisfied with my Sunday run no matter what the [...]]]></description>
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