AM: Easy mile 10miles AVP: 9:46; had a bad stomach (milk is not a good breakfast for me); did a new route downtown Atlanta and then CNN Northside and back on 14th street PP VH. 1.6 miles warmup and cool down; whether is humid! I liked the route; was a nice city tour with little traffic. Interesting observation about endurance: I think it makes sense to let the body/mind decide how long (miles) and how fast (pace); in order to build up this endurance animal in me, i am thinking i just let my body/mind run off and see how long it goes; i was afraid of long distances, long runs, and new places of running; in our usual environment everything is restricted by time and space (makes sense); i think running can be the sport where time and place can get irrelevant (at least in the mind and a partially in terms of space); so i just try to let things go and run where my mind leads me; did that today and i discovered a total new part of the city; did the same 2 weeks ago; that way the feeling of boredom does not come up; in contrast, by running different routes where the mind/body let me run ahead, i believer, i am getting closer to what Sasha described the essence as least i think i am getting closer; i think of it at running for the sake of running and not for the sake of time and distance; rather being ambitious and get things done in time and place and a certain manner; i try just to let it go on the easy runs; i think these are the runs were the inner strength shows. Not sure whether this makes sense, it makes sense for me; it is basically running without limits; in our daily life we have all these limitations; but running can be the moment where someone leaves behind all limitations; i am not an endurance animal by all means but i am trying to get there; i think that leaving behind our own created limitations and our responses to limitations is one (my) approach to get to what we call endurance; persistence is the key for this.
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