Tarmac Meditations #61: The Purpose of Endurance

Michael Lebowitz shares his thoughts about running, endurance and life.

December 13, 2010
Ran today. Slow track work-out. Thought about endurance as a quality: hard work, ongoing effort, success in the face of failure. The fact of it is that endurance is both a lesson and an imperative. It teaches a person to overcome obstacles, physical tiredness, mental exhaustion, the foolishness of the impulse to participate, the repetition of pain. It’s imperative because the only failure (if it’s failure at all) is quitting before the tank is empty.

December 13, 2010 (Later)
Field of dreams in winter implies the boys of summer…book titles and movie titles as sentences. Post-modern? Lazy? Or what? Get to work, Writer Boy. These musings are, well, “useless and pointless knowledge” as Bob Dylan would say. Hell, he did say it.

December 14, 2010
Me? Got my own section Tarmac Meditations section here on Life As A Human. Go figure. Pretty neat and totally unexpected. If the snow is deep and there is no reason to do anything else, waste some time and check this out. Or not. 🙂

December 14, 2010 (Later)
Walked up the 19th Street hill, which is part of the marathon course. In the not so distant past, I used to flatten this sucker. Ahhh. Young is good. Age is not for the humorless. Circled the south border of the University. Had coffee and conversation. Some days it’s just like that. And that is okay with this old wayfaring stranger on the road 2 ruin.

Photo Credit

“Trees in Fog” andyconniecox @ Flickr.com. Creative Commons. Some Rights Reserved.