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2014: One for the books

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Shannon Quinn

As the sun sets on 2014, it takes with it easily the most action-packed year of my short life. I’ll spare you the gory details of in-depth retrospectives that I’m probably still too close to objectively give, and instead just provide … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Exercise, Graduate School, Holidays, i ken make living plz | Tagged academia, athens, crazy year in review, dissertation defense, five years' worth of stuff crammed into one, goodbye pittsburgh, half marathon, happy new year, i'm a ramblin' wreck from georgia tech and a helluvan engineer, job hunt, mawwage is what bwings us togethah today, moving, new year, personal record, pittsburgh, publications, publish or publish, running, the best dissertation defense is a good dissertation offense, would totally do it all over again, year in review | 2 Comments

To Pittsburgh

Posted on December 24, 2014 by Shannon Quinn

For those not in the know–The Lady and I just completed our 12-hour journey (yes I know GMaps says 9.5, but GMaps doesn’t have checkboxes for “traveling with cat” and “include pileup on a bridge in Virginia”) from our 4.5-year … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Graduate School | Tagged athens, awesome advisor was awesome, computational biology, friends, love pittsburgh, muffin the fluffernutter, pittsburgh, probably won't get three feet of snow at a time anymore, racing, runners, running, so many lovely people | 1 Comment

’tis the season

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Shannon Quinn

…for putting this on your computer! As life is going to be pretty hectic for the rest of this month, I thought I’d take a breath before the plunge and give a general update as to the goings-on of this … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Exercise, Graduate School, Running, The Lady, twitterbot | Tagged cilia, dreaming, i cannot describe how elated i would be to publish in nature as a grad student, lucid dreaming, mo farah is a badass, nature, nature biotechnology, objects in mirror are more birdlike than they appear, racquetball, racquetball playoffs, running, skeptic's guide to the universe, the philly marathon beatdown still reverberates in my legs, twitterbot ownage | 2 Comments

Playoffs

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Shannon Quinn

That’s what the current stage of marathon training feels like: football playoffs. After you’ve weathered football camp, double sessions, the blazing southern heat of August and September, and 10 regular season games, the playoffs arrive. It’s a time of anticipation … Continue reading →

Posted in Exercise, lolcat, Real Life, Running, The Lady | Tagged 136 miles in october and that's without the runs i skipped due to a gimp foot, double sessions, football, football camp, high school football, monster month, philadelphia marathon, philly marathon, playoffs, races, regular season, running | 5 Comments

It’s like LJ on WordPress

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Shannon Quinn

Taking a cue from Megan (and because I’m still in publish-my-research-yesterday mode), I’m boring you all with more details about my running experiences with a questionnaire that delves deeply into the personal and leaves no metaphorical stone unturned…or something. 1. Best … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Internet, Running, The Lady | Tagged canadia, goals, hooray injuries, i run so i can eat, personal records are made to be broken, philly marathon, running | 4 Comments

Holy crap, Ragnar

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Shannon Quinn

I have never experienced anything like that before. Wow. This past weekend was indescribable. I’m still processing it all. What Ragnar has established and runs with every month of every year is nothing short of remarkable. It’s a testament … Continue reading →

Posted in Race Review, Ragnar DC 2012, Real Life, Running, the fam, The Lady, Travel | Tagged everything is fine nothing is fucked, four score and seven miles ago, ragnar, ragnar dc, ragnar relay, running | Leave a comment

Pre-race strategizing

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Shannon Quinn

The Air Force Marathon is this coming weekend. We had our last quality workout this morning (7mi tempo run); now it’s a mini-taper in final preparation for the Saturday half marathon. My goal is the same as it was for … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Real Life, Running | Tagged 9/11, air force, air force marathon, distance running, half marathon, just a short run, nine eleven, running, strategery, strategizing | 2 Comments

I need a running blog

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Shannon Quinn

Mainly because there’s so much going on with running and with researching, it’s getting difficult to pick what to bloogggggg about. Though I suppose that’s better than the alternative of starting every post with “so I’ve been bad about blogging … Continue reading →

Posted in Exercise, Graduate School, lolcat, Programming, Running | Tagged air force marathon, eigensolvers, hadoop, half marathon, love me some b-2 spirit, marathon training, running, scientific python, scikit-learn, scipy | Leave a comment

Oh, Pittsburgh [Half-Marathon]

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Shannon Quinn

Here’s the promised race report: it sucked, the end. Ok fine, that’s a little unfair. A lot unfair, in fact. I suppose I should walk through what really went down that morning of Sunday, May 6. Get ready for a lengthy … Continue reading →

Posted in Real Life, Sports, The Lady | Tagged a lot went wrong and some went right, bonking, good luck with that javascript based image copy protection noobs, kernel regression, linear regression, overtraining, pittsburgh half-marathon, pittsburgh marathon, point state park, running, stupid 376 onramp, stupid birmingham bridge, stupid boulevard of the allies, subpar performance, the lady always keeps things in perspective, WHY WERE ALL THE RELAY RUNNERS WALKING IT MAKES NO F&#@ING SENSE, yeah i went there combining running with linear regression | 4 Comments

The Steadfast 10k

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Shannon Quinn

10k has always been one of my favorite distances: it’s long enough to be interesting, but short enough to be pretty effing painful. And it takes a lot of work to improve one’s time on it. Say, one full year. … Continue reading →

Posted in Exercise, lolcat, The Lady | Tagged 10k, air force marathon, b-2 flyover is going to be freaking incredible, burgh 10k, cecil, elevation chart, gps, philadelphia marathon, running, took me a year to beat that pr, zombie 5k | 3 Comments

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