The sun is up, the air is fresh, the stone is old

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Location:

Logan,UT,USA

Member Since:

Dec 15, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PRs after age 40:

 

5k     15:15  Running of the Leopards.

8k      22:21  Alta Death Dash

10k   33:02    Des News

Half Marathon      1:10  Timp Half

Marathon        2:32    Ogden

First solo R2R2R Bass Trails Grand Canyon 

First R2R2R Grand Canyon Toroweap Overlook

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Not be fat all year

Long-Term Running Goals:

Smell the dirt, feel the mountain, taste the wind.

Personal:

 

"Our legs are tight, our feet are flying, and we are gliding over the roll of the land. The sun is up, the air is fresh, the stone is old, and we are free and at peace. The clock has stopped because another time has taken over." C. Bowden

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Day off, enjoying Portland.

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Beautiful evening run along the Nashville river trail after work.  One week of this "fun running" until it's time to do a little real training again.  I read a good article today in a Triathlon magazine flying in this afternoon.  Been thinking a bit about it today.  The basic idea was that each athlete's potential is like a ladder, with rungs all the way up.  The top rung represents your top potential and the rungs down are levels you can perform at.  Athletes perform at different rungs of their individual ladder, most far down from the top.  Some reach a new rung on the ladder and feel it's the top rung and spend years training to that rung, back up and  down.  Some good athletes train rung to rung, reaching plateaus each time and having to find some new technique or level of training each time to have a "breakthrough" to the next rung.  The author was focusing on masters and the question of how much performance is lost as a result of age.  His idea was that you began to lose a few rungs off the ladder as you get older, but that your current level probably isn't affected since most of us perform so far down our ladder anyways due to family priorities, bad training or plain laziness.  I think it helps explain why we are seeing more focused older athletes doing some crazy times.  It's why you feel, what the #$%&, I can run so much faster than this!, sometimes.  Maybe that's why I love marathoning.  There's something about the sport that makes you want to discipline yourself, to strive for consistency in something that is so easy to do great or to fail miserably in.  It's like your heart seems to know that the top rung is so way above what you are doing, that the process of figuring out how to get to it or what's worth sacrifing to get there, is more fun than the race.  Every now and then just getting a glimpse of that top rung is a bigger rush than winning.

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Nice run in the sun outside the airport perimeter in Denver

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Hit the treadmill this morning since it was foggy and cold.  7 miles at 7:30 pace and felt pretty good so I changed plans and picked it up to 6 min pace for the last 5.  Long run on a treadmill for me.

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Cold run in the early morning fog about -60 degrees.

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Running the treadmill again..

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Off day.  Kids activities all day

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