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Tarmac Meditations-Another Day, Another Mile

October 30, 2010 By longrun Leave a Comment

20101028-30.ml.fog014-2.jpg I went out this morning before daylight. My friend Joe said “run a mile, see how it goes.” So I did. Didn’t go all that well. Then I ran another mile on account of if you’re going to run a test mile it’s better not to do it all in one direction away from home. Important to calculate that getting back will be another mile. Also probably not a good idea to run downhill for the first mile on account of…well you see where this is going. The Kenyan runners start out very slowly to see how they are feeling…if it is not good they stop. Generally though they finish up at five minute pace. It occurs to me, after years of study, that I am not a Kenyan runner and even my inner Kenyan doesn’t really understand five minute pace. All told, a couple plus this morning, lifting later today( sounds impressive right? not so much-about ten minutes worth) Starting to dream Comrades dreams or maybe the local mountain series…trail mostly, up and down and quiet in the big trees.

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New Plan

October 29, 2010 By longrun Leave a Comment

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Created a new plan-found(?) another event to point to. Thinking to go ultra on account of marathons scare the hell out of me with their focus, oops, my focus, on performance and time. I suppose a trail marathon would work against that. In celebration of having a plan I stayed in bed this morning, didn’t run BUT I did get up, stretch out and lift. Planning wood chopping tomorrow-axe, maul, wedge, sweat, grunting, manly stuff..cross training to you runner geeks. Now back to the writing, muted cursing and some serious whining.


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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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Tarmac Meditations-To Run or Not to Run

October 18, 2010 By longrun Leave a Comment

stamina, trail runningMade the decision not to run today. Made the same one yesterday. It’s the same decision as deciding to run because a runner decides whether or not to run everyday. Same decision process. Different results. Today? Migraine and grumpiness. Not really a good enough reason but reason enough. Need to change the context I think. Run everyday, except some days when you don’t. Is this a change? The whole thing is tiring me out.

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