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My 2021 Run Streak: 1,500 Miles

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  • January 1, 2022January 19, 2022

“We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action.”
-Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

Coach Ian Cruz and Chris "The Warrior" Washington at Dreamland Boxing

Why I Coach Boxing For Free

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  • December 27, 2021December 29, 2021

“In an age of instrumentalization, the hobbyist is a subversive: he insists that some things are worth doing for themselves alone, despite offering no payoffs in terms of productivity or profit. The derision we heap upon the avid stamp collector or train spotter might really be a kind of defense mechanism, to spare us from confronting the possibility that they’re truly happy in a way that the rest of us—pursuing our telic lives, ceaselessly in search of future fulfillment—are not. This also helps explain why it’s far less embarrassing (indeed, positively fashionable) to have a “side hustle,” a hobby-like activity explicitly pursued with profit in mind.”
-Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

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Life is a Marathon, Not a Sprint

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  • December 16, 2021December 13, 2021

“I started my endurance journey with a 4-mile ‘fun run.’
I didn’t start with 100 Full Distance Triathlons in 100 days.
You cannot go from 0 to 100 in life.
Be patient with the journey and learn the smaller lessons along the way. Those are the most meaningful.”
-James Lawrence

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Gamestonk!

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  • January 30, 2021July 24, 2021

Gamestonk: Unpacking the short squeeze and price run-up of Gamestop, the collective power of the retail investor, and trends to watch out for in the future.

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Coach Ian – Week In Review: (01/17/2021)

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  • January 17, 2021April 22, 2021

Coach Ian – Week In Review (01/17/2021): Testing your biological age, getting your annual bloodwork, the time efficiencies of working from home, the KP San Francisco Virtual Half Marathon is underway, and Dreamland Boxing updates!

Coach Ian - Week in Review 01/10/2021

Coach Ian – Week In Review: (01/10/2021)

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  • January 10, 2021April 22, 2021

Coach Ian – Week In Review (01/10/2021): Balancing a Career and Fitness: Training in Under 20 Hours a Week, an accountability check for my 2020 fitness goals, the KP San Francisco Virtual Half Marathon is underway, and Dreamland Boxing is re-opening Monday!

2020 Fitness Goals Revisited

2020 Fitness Goals Revisited

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  • January 9, 2021April 22, 2021

Coach Ian: 2020 Fitness Goals Revisted: An accountability check – what I was able and unable to accomplish in 2020.