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February 2013

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AL,USA

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Jun 14, 2008

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Running Accomplishments:

I've finished a couple of races here and there...

Short-Term Running Goals:

Maybe one day I'll be enough of a runner to run a race.

maybe not...

Long-Term Running Goals:

My ultimate long term goal is to die young as late as possible...

Personal:

Rule #1:  Cardio - Zombies lead a very active lifestyle, so should you.

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you bet

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strategery

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"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival." - W. Edwards Deming 

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"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author." - G.K. Chesterton 

(funny... it seems that Mr. Chesterton is talking about more than books here...)

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only had time for a few, but the weather was too nice to pass up...

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"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts." - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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I must say that I noted a bit of irony today.  I only ran three miles, and it wasn't the most enjoyable three miles I've ever done.  It was by no means the worst, but the best description of this run would be the ever-so-illuminating word of "bleh."  My internal response to this was thinking, "man, if this run is going to suck, I wish I had at least gotten a few more miles in to have a respectable distance."

I find this ironic because, after my 3-miler on Wednesday, which I thoroughly enjoyed, I was utterly content to be done for the day (time restrictions kept me at low mileage on Wednesday).  Contrarily, after today's less than enjoyable run, I wanted more.

We runners are strange folk.

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"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another." - Anatole France 

 

...so i may be scheming up another run again... stay tuned...

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"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." - Sidney J. Harris

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wussed out of the 40 degree rain and took a nap.

 

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"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances." - Julia Sorel 

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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

(applicable to more than just vocation...)

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...because that's what the cool kids do on Friday nights...

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"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

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"Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born." - Fyodor Dostoevsky  

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It took a second for me to locate the small voice yelling from above...

"It's too cold to be running!"

I finally spotted the boy, not older than 5 or 6, in an open apartment window at the top of the building to my right.

"Naw, man; it's the perfect temperature!" I yelled back, smiling.

His response was priceless:  "Oh... OK... Well good luck!!!"

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"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger." - Dan Rather

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For some reason, there weren't any other runners out tonight.

I, for one, thought the 40 degree, windy rain was fun...

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"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." - Joe Ancis 

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"If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes.  If you still thinks it's boring, try it for four.  If you still think it's boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth.  Soon enough you'll find that it's really not boring at all." - John Cage 

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"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly.  I said I don't know." - Mark Twain 

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I sent this in to an ultrarunning email group today, so I thought I'd share with y'all: 

Admittedly, the weather of the last few days has been less than pleasant for running.  Maybe it's just a Southerner's thin skin allowing the 40 degree rain to penetrate a little too deeply, or maybe it's the accumulation of many days of miserable weather over the last few weeks, but whatever the cause, the effect is the same:  a cold, drenched, slightly fatigued runner trudging back inside afterward.

To any sane person, this begs the immediate question of why we do it.  Why would we put ourselves through such experiences?  Why risk sickness?  Why go out into the cold?  I must admit, when I get off work and am driving to my running launch point, I often wonder such things.  I often find myself asking, is it worth it?

Sitting at a keyboard, it is certainly easy to say "of course it is, you can get X and Y and Z out of it and see benefits A and B and C and you can do this, and, and, and..." But when it comes time to put rubber to road, we're all faced with that same question.

Is it worth it?

I think that when we opt out of our runs, the answer is apparently that it is not; however, when we, as runners, can get past these questions that plague us prior to our runs, more often than not, once we get into the act of running itself, the answer becomes a resounding yes.

Is it worth it?  This cold, drenched, slightly fatigue runner trudging back inside afterward would have to give a hearty affirmative.

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"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." - Rene Descartes 

...and since i'm so excited about the sequester, i'll throw in another for today...

"The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty-five years ago.  The second best time is today."

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