You mean everyone doesn't do this?

Location:

AL,USA

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

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

Short-Term Running Goals:

Finish the Arkansas Traveler 100-miler

Get back into a consistent running routine

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run Western States and Hardrock

Run a loop at Barkley

Continue running until my knees and ankles fall off.

Personal:

I am a grad student in civil (structural) engineering, which may put a damper on running from time to time, but, as always, running presses on.

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Miles:	This week:	26.45	Month:	55.15	Year:	55.15

Mon, Dec 01, 2008
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	10.00
I decided that I should start pretending to be a runner again...
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Tue, Dec 02, 2008
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
8.50	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.50
"We train every day of the year under all conditions...A junior once asked me: 'What would we do if there was an earthquake and the epicenter was right here?' My answer was: 'Then we would run down the middle of the Earth!'" - Mario Moniz Pereira
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Wed, Dec 03, 2008
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
6.75	2.50	1.25	0.00	10.50
Warmup, 3x2000 (6:30, 6:00, and 5:15/mile paces - solid descending series) with Auburn running club, cooldown. Good run. "To be or not to be; is that a question?"
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Thu, Dec 04, 2008
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
7.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	7.00
"I will love the light for is shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino
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Sat, Dec 06, 2008
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
6.00	0.00	3.00	0.00	9.00
Frosty Freeze 5k this morning. First race since Pinhoti, soI went in with no expectations and just ran. I ended up running around a 17:30 for a good tempo, and despite the chilly temps, I think a good time was had by all. ...So a guy with whom I run in Auburn sent me an email saying that he was thinking about trying his first 100 at the Keys Ultras, and he got me thinking about getting ready for another... dang
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Mon, Dec 08, 2008
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
8.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.00
"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it." - Arnold Toynbee As an interesting side note, I just noticed after showering off that a blood blister that I developed during the Pinhoti 100 (exactly 1 month ago today) just popped. It had already mostly drained but just wouldn't go away completely until now. I still can't feel the inside of the tip of my left big toe. Interesting....
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Tue, Dec 09, 2008
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Finals yay. "It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought." - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Wed, Dec 10, 2008
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	10.00
7 hours of finals today, all in the same room, and with only a 15 minute break. great day. "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what." - Harper Lee
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Thu, Dec 11, 2008
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
You'd think that I'd get my lazy rear end out to run on the day on which I sign up for a new marathon, but no... (By the way, if anyone's interested, there are still plenty of spots available at the Mississippi Blues Marathon...)
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Sat, Dec 13, 2008
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
rough day "Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster." - Quentin Crisp
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Mon, Dec 15, 2008
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
0.00	0.00	5.33	0.00	5.33
The look of a true intellectual.
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Tue, Dec 16, 2008
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
8.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.00
I think this quote is probably more applicable to running than most of my previous ones: "Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way." - A. Lawrence Lowell
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Thu, Dec 18, 2008
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
15.25	0.00	0.00	0.00	15.25
The trial of miles; miles of trials
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Sat, Dec 20, 2008
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
18.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	18.00
"Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive." - Edith Wharton
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Wed, Dec 31, 2008
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
So, by now this "unintentional taper" is gettin a bit rediculous. I am ready to get back to a training routine...
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