| Location: AL,USA Member Since: Jun 14, 2008 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other 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...
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| "Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence." - Henrik Tikkanen | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| two for tuesday... "If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully." - Kahlil Gibran ...and... "We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| just a few easy out to the woods pasture and back... | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 7.10 |
| watermelon 5k before the festivities began in belzoni.... | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| hot and humid, but bunches of people out and about... | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| "Have more than thou showest; speak less than thou knowest." - Billy Shakespeare | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| squeezing a couple in before whisking away to youth stuff | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| fun variation of the standard thursday night runs. the TN river is up due to all the rain, so we had to re-route to skip the trails, but even the out-and-backs on the road were covered in high-shin deep water. fun stuff... | | Add Comment |
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| One of the little wonders of life is that seemingly identical situations
can have an almost infinite number of outcomes. This is illustrated
well with the limitless experiences that are possible on a single route
run day after day after day.
Perhaps such an observation is obvious, but Monday's run brought this presumably self-evident concept to the fore.
It was the same standard route around town, a variant of which is generally run three or four times per week.
It
was the same standard weather for this time of year, which around here
means hot and humid enough to have your forearms dripping within minutes
of starting the run.
It was the same standard time of day, usually meaning a slowly waning volume of traffic.
The
specifics of the run aren't important; it could be any
route to which you've grown almost monotonously accustomed on any given
day, the "everyman" of runs. (I suppose the achievement of such an
"everyman" of runs is a deep and hard-earned concept, but that's an
entirely different post...)
Regardless of when or where it all
occurred, it was the seemingly standard variances that paradoxically
made it noteworthy: a careless right on red, a couple out walking the
dog, some friends out for an afternoon walk. These are the things that
force ever-so-slight changes in an otherwise average run and thus
transform the standard into the deviation.
A wide swing or a
tight turn can provide vantage points and observations counter to the
norm; who knew this stretch of yard was incongruously overgrown or that
the small hanging branch that was such an annoyance during the winter
could have such beautiful buds in the summer?
An ornery ankle or
dead legs might be grounds for assuming it just wasn't a
good day, but how gratifying is it to know that you toughed it out, and
isn't there value in having the not-as-easy days as a basis of
comparison...?
The wandering thoughts are endless and inevitably
lead to a challenge of the definition or assignment of the term
"standard." What is a standard run? Who sets said standard? When did
I/he/she/they/we define this elusive standard?
Alas, before all
the answers to these questions, along with the countless others that
arose, could be adequately answered, the run was over, leaving the
mysteries of the universe to be pondered on another "standard" run.
...and if all this is from just one run, the extrapolation out to the rest of life is all the more entrancing...
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| "Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal." - Cory Doctorow | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| ...it just seemed like the cool thing to do on a tuesday... | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| the rain in spain stays mainly on the plain. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| hot, humid, hungry, happy, hilly, head, hal, hedgehogs, hard, hondas, huron, hook, humbug, herbivore, hectometer, hindenburg, hercules... | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| "Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads." - Erica Jong | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| Many people don't understand why we run, and, more often than not, we
are at a loss when it comes to articulating a response. This is even
more true when those asking decide to cling to their predetermined
loathing of our sport. We simply cannot provide a comprehensive and
lucid reason without delving into euphemisms and the ethereal, and
astute antagonists will often point this out with their own anecdotal
evidence to support such contrarian views.
Their loss.
Euphemisms aside, the minutia of our daily runs make them worth the while.
Noticing
the flora and fauna, greeting the mail carriers, feeling the changes of
the seasons; these are all such integral parts of life, and yet they
tend to go unnoticed without something like a monotonous daily run to
force them into view.
Big races, PR's, and physical milestones
seem to warrant all the attention, but yesterday's run illustrated that
the daily grind might just have some of the most important, if not the
most subtle benefits.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| "The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived." - Oscar Wilde | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| "Virtue is its own punishment." - Aneurin Bevan | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| "Live up to you potential instead of imitating someone else's." - Martha Burgess | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 4.10 |
| "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| the weather was simply too good not to... | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| everyone give a huge happy birthday to my ever Inimitable Mother! true to form she is celebrating being twenty-something for twenty-something years...
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.50 | 0.00 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
| ...and one of the most fascinating splat patterns i've ever seen from a bug graced my windshield on the way home... | | Comments(1) |
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| here's hoping tonight's youth stuff warrants such an abbreviated run... | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 150.50 | 7.00 | 11.70 | 0.00 | 169.20 |
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