You mean everyone doesn't do this?

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100

"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment." - Baltasar Gracian

Wed, Jan 07, 2009

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100

weird

Tue, Jan 06, 2009

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle." - Phillips Brooks

Sat, Jan 03, 2009

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Ran the Mississippi Blues Marathon as a workout - I knew I wasn't in good marathon shape going in, so I ran the first half at decent pace and ran the rest slowly enough to enjoy it. Fun race, and I would recommend it to anyone who has the opportunity to run it. Oh well, on to the fun races: 50k's, 12-hr's, and beyond (does anyone know of a good 100 in the late spring/early summer?)....

Wed, Dec 31, 2008

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

So, by now this "unintentional taper" is gettin a bit rediculous. I am ready to get back to a training routine...

Mon, Dec 22, 2008

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

4 with Lynn

Sun, Dec 21, 2008

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

weeeeee!

Sat, Dec 20, 2008

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

"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

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

The trial of miles; miles of trials

Wed, Dec 17, 2008

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

cryptic statement

Tue, Dec 16, 2008

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

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

Mon, Dec 15, 2008

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

The look of a true intellectual.

Sat, Dec 13, 2008

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

rough day

"Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster." - Quentin Crisp

Thu, Dec 11, 2008

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

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...)

Wed, Dec 10, 2008

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

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

Tue, Dec 09, 2008

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

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

Mon, Dec 08, 2008

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

"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....