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Roll On-Part Two

May 22, 2012 By Michael Lebowitz Leave a Comment

Part 2
I had lunch with an old friend yesterday. We talked how we do about this and that, people and miles, races and writing, images and books to come, you know the stuff we do. It occurred to me that he is going more gently into what’s coming than am I and that seems a good thing. For him. For me, it’s not where I come from in the way back when and having given so much time to wrong turns and bad choices there is no gentle going for me, only the steady beat of getting down the road with whatever there is to do today. Roll on you rollin’ river…someone with rhythm said that.

Lilawaup Creek

Photograph by  Michael Lebowitz ©2012

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Tarmac Meditations-My New Year’s Resolutions 2011

December 31, 2010 By longrun 2 Comments

The ColumbiaUnder the heading of “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours” what are your New Year’s resolutions for 2011 for the runners in the crowd, the writers, and the peeps with dreams and schemes and other such that might bring them closer to the light in which they believe…post them in the comment section below or keep them to yourself BUT all the best of everything and may this year be a year  in which you get closer to to the light of that in which you believe for you and those you love.

Here are mine:

1. turn 65 years old

2. lose 65 lbs

3. run a 65 mile run in my 65th year

4. make a plan, follow the plan consistently, listen to the coaches

5. get to the start line of every event

6. keep a consistent journal of the journey: pretraining, training, and running.

7. write the book, take the pictures

8. Remember, everyday, to be grateful for the gift of being alive and to express it…

9. in an act of kindness for which no thank you is needed.

10. take a step, take another step, breathe, repeat.

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Tarmac Meditations-On Not Running

October 22, 2010 By longrun Leave a Comment

All these people, they are still running all except one...can you guess?
Apparently I am writing a running journal for a guy who doesn’t run; neither everyday nor do I train for races…WTH. On one side at least I write something everyday. On the other in addition to my typing skills improving, I don’t have to buy eighty dollar gloves with waffle treads and neutral posting for my fingers or faux olympic training jackets for my hands, to which my speedy fingers are attached. I type in my fingers’ aerobic zone, sometimes I do anaerobic-interval like sprints with the necessary repeats involved (correcting errors, like doing running intervals too fast, is typing’s version pulling a hammy or tweaking that achilles). Is there a point to this? Not likely…hungry, didn’t run early likely not to run later, will run tomorrow and now…lunch highlighted by  two ibuprofen, a diet pepsi and a handful of unshelled organic salted peanuts( how do you salt a peanut with the shell on and then take the shell off and still have a salty peanut to eat?)…don’t ask, don’t know.

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