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Thomas O'Donnell

@twodonnell.bsky.social

Partner, Papa, Historian, Ultrarunner. Maybe the least ambitious PhD-long distance runner you’ve ever met.

147 Followers  |  373 Following  |  12 Posts  |  Joined: 19.11.2024  |  1.6565

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Congratulations Brian, looking forward to receiving my copy early next year!

23.11.2025 01:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It’s hard to beat Star Lord’s description of the movie 🤣

25.07.2025 02:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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5:00am views.

30.03.2025 22:58 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Putting my angst aside for the next 15 hours.

08.03.2025 14:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
View of Lake Natoma dam from rocky hill in the rain, Daisy dog in pink raincoat running in the grass.

View of Lake Natoma dam from rocky hill in the rain, Daisy dog in pink raincoat running in the grass.

Training while it's raining. So much fun. The trails are little creeks and the mud and puddles are perfect for stomping. Daisy is not such a huge fan of the rain but she doesn't contain her excitement to just be running.

04.01.2025 00:32 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Never been a fan of “resolutions” or the like, but going to give Dry January a go in support of my ambitious 2025 race plans.

01.01.2025 20:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am not yet used to the feelings of relating to my daughter as an adult living in the big city and going to college. She’s still the person I took care of for 18 years. So weird.

25.12.2024 00:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Christmas Eve in Union Square, waiting for my daughter to get off work and whisk her home for the holiday.

25.12.2024 00:03 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In the past, the California International Marathon #CIM has been my victory parade fun run to celebrate a productive year of training and racing (we don’t get a lot of crowds at ultras), this year it’ll have to be an advance on 2025.

07.12.2024 01:44 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My fashion stylist majoring daughter settled a decades long disagreement in our house-multicolored or white lights on the Christmas tree. The simplest answer: both.

30.11.2024 02:30 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My daughter is on her way home from college for the holiday for the first time and this is such a wonderful feeling of anticipation!

28.11.2024 01:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Riffing off Sidney Harris's iconic cartoon, my #CIM plan: Step 1-start the race; Step 2-"a miracle occurs"; Step 3-finish the race.

25.11.2024 19:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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