My Top 10 Blog Posts from 2021
January 1, 2022
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My top 10 blog posts from 2021 on boxing, running, and health.
Blog Posts
My 2021 Run Streak: 1,500 Miles
January 1, 2022
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“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
Why I Coach Boxing For Free
December 27, 2021
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“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
Coach Ian – Week In Review: 12/26/2021
December 26, 2021
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Coach Ian – Week in Review 12/26/2021: Why I coach boxing for free, psilocybin for depression, Oura $50 Off, & Dreamland Boxing updates.
Coach Ian – Week In Review: 12/19/2021
December 19, 2021
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Coach Ian – Week in Review 12/19/2021: Time Management for Mortals, Olympic Boxing Corruption, Brandun Lee highlights, a great weekend for women’s boxing, Oura $50 Off, & Dreamland Boxing updates.
This Week at Dreamland Boxing (12/18/2021)
December 18, 2021
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This Week at Dreamland Boxing (12/18/2021)
– The Dreamland Boxing team ran 10 (or 6) miles up Mission Peak on Saturday
– The Dreamland Boxing Holiday Luncheon was on Saturday
– Stay tuned for news on Mark Salgado’s next fight!
– The gym will be closed the week of 12/20/21 – 12/26/21 for Christmas
– Dreamland Boxing will be hosting a show on 2/19/2022! Mark Salgado, Tommy Moreno, Sandra Magallon, and Dominic Pezzella will be fighting
– Intro to Sparring will be held every other Saturday. Members must have a physical on file to spar.
– Members only sparring has begun! It will be held Tuesday and Thursday nights, every other week, for members approved by a coach with a current physical on file
– The Willow Glen chess club meets at Dreamland Boxing on Fridays between 9AM-12PM on Fridays at 1PM-4PM on Sundays
Full video on www.iancruz.blog.
Life is a Marathon, Not a Sprint
December 16, 2021
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“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
A $250,000 Bribe During the 2016 Boxing Olympics and why Boxing May Be Dropped from the 2028 Olympic Games
December 13, 2021
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Olympic Boxing Corruption: A $250,000 Bribery During the 2016 Boxing Olympics and why Boxing May Be Dropped from the 2028 Olympic Games
Coach Ian – Week In Review: 12/12/2021
December 12, 2021
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Coach Ian – Week in Review 12/12/2021: Life is a Marathon, Oura $50 Off, Tummo Breahing, Cryo vs Ice Baths, & Dreamland Boxing updates.
This Week at Dreamland Boxing (12/11/2021)
December 11, 2021
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This Week at Dreamland Boxing (12/11/2021)
– Stay tuned for news on Mark Salgado’s next fight!
Mark got some rounds in with Justin Cardona (6-0)
-Dreamland will be closed 12/20 – 12/26 for Christmas
-Dreamland will be hosting a show on 2/19/22
– Intro to Sparring will be held every other Saturday. Members must have a physical on file to spar.
– Members only sparring has begun! It will be held Tuesday and Thursday nights, every other week, for members approved by a coach with a current physical on file
– The Willow Glen chess club meets at Dreamland Boxing on Fridays between 9AM-12PM on Fridays at 1PM-4PM on Sundays
-Full video on www.iancruz.blog.
Coach Ian – Week In Review: 12/05/2021
December 5, 2021
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Coach Ian – Week in Review 12/05/2021: Running with the St Petersburg Running Club, a boxing gym in Florida, Why I wouldn’t take Kratom, my favorite Kava Bar in St Petersburg, Crossing 1,400 miles run in 2021, a recap of Teofimo Lopez vs George Kambosos Jr, $50 Off the Oura Ring, & Dreamland Boxing updates.
This Week at Dreamland Boxing (12/04/2021)
December 4, 2021
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This Week at Dreamland Boxing (12/04/2021)
-Dreamland will be closed 12/20 – 12/26 for Christmas
-Dreamland will be hosting a show on 2/19/22
– Intro to Sparring will be held every other Saturday. Members must have a physical on file to spar.
– Members only sparring has begun! It will be held Tuesday and Thursday nights, every other week, for members approved by a coach with a current physical on file
– The Willow Glen chess club meets at Dreamland Boxing on Fridays between 9AM-12PM on Fridays at 1PM-4PM on Sundays
Full video on www.iancruz.blog.