Martin Remy

  • Minimal Running Shoes

    This is my story of becoming the Imelda Marcos of minimal running shoes.  I’ve been running for about a dozen years, mostly in Adidas Supernovas: Over the last few years, I started to have increasing pain in my knees during and after a run.  More and more often, I’d have to skip a day until… Read more ⇢

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  • The Parking Lot Movie

    Through the magic of Netflix I came across this amazing documentary last weekend.  The Parking Lot Movie is a 79-minute meditation on capitalism, sociology, management, class war, and of course, cars. The Corner Parking Lot in Charlottesville, VA, is staffed by unlikely attendants — graduate students in philosophy and theology, for example — which gives… Read more ⇢

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  • What a Year

    I relish the chance to reflect on an ending year, but the past few months have been insanely busy.  So without further ado, while it’s still January, here is my 2010 in a sentence: I left AOL, gave up coffee, took a trip around the world with my family, Germany nearly almost won the World… Read more ⇢

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  • Seth Godin, Linchpin

    I just finished reading Seth Godin’s latest opus with the “calling all weasels” title Linchpin – Are You Indispensable? Life is short, so I usually steer clear of so-called business books, but I’d heard much about Godin and watched some of his videos and was intrigued.  So I held my nose and started reading.  It… Read more ⇢

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  • My favorite 2.6% of the day

    My new favorite run takes me through 4.5 miles of the open space near my house, has about 700 feet of ascents according to my trusty Garmin Forerunner, and takes me about 38 minutes on a good day.  There’s nothing like running under a Colorado sky on a sunny December day.  Those 38 minutes are… Read more ⇢

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