The Perils of Self Betterment

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Location:

UT,

Member Since:

Jan 17, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

yearly mileage totals (actual running miles, not crosstraining etc)

2008 - 1,317

2009 - 2,654

2010 - 2,578

2011 - 2,618

2012 - 3,083 (ran everyday this year. PR's in half and full marathons, at age 48!)

2013 - 1,177

2014 - 1,716

2015 - 1,060

2016 - 951

2017 - 786

2018 - 1,058

2019 - 1,211

2020 - 1010

2021 - 1064.9

2022 - 1135.9

Short-Term Running Goals:

reacquaint myself with my long lost running freak, and then proceed to get my running freak on

run faster

increase mileage in the Spring 

keep running

 

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

run

 

Personal:

born in 1964. married 25 years. one wife one dog

6 ft tall, nation wide

"Engaging in a little suffering — however self-imposed, arbitrary and contrived — before breakfast each morning tends to demand some humility and injects some marked relief into the rest of the day, making things sharper, more inspired, more immediately aware of the powerful presence of being. And that seems really worthwhile." A. Krupicka

 

"I cruised down hills, churned up hills, and floated over the asphalt, existing in a world that seemed to lack the confinements of such ubiquitous rivets as time, obligation, or pain. I knew then that this was destined to be one of those serendipitous runs for which so many of 
us strive yet so rarely achieve." J. Nevels

 

 

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Switchbacksblack Lifetime Miles: 176.50
Kinvara11(2) Lifetime Miles: 362.50
Kinvara11blue Lifetime Miles: 327.70
Rincon2 Lifetime Miles: 262.40
Spg 4’s Lifetime Miles: 135.50
Skechers Razor3 Lifetime Miles: 160.90
Rincon2(2) Lifetime Miles: 85.50
Asics Noosa14 Lifetime Miles: 73.00
Sauconyaxon2 Lifetime Miles: 73.80
Mach 4 Lifetime Miles: 34.50
Total Distance
5.30

Early lunch run. 5.3 miles.  Sunny, 77F. 9:12 average pace.

The cut back in mileage this week is feeling good. The marathon is a week from tomorrow. My tentative plan is to run tomorrow, take Sunday off, run Mon. Tues. and Wednesday (maybe a short easy trail run).  Off Thursday, and maybe a two or three mile run on Friday. Total miles for next week, before the marathon, in the low 20's.  If any of my thousands of dedicated readers see some glaring flaw in my planned taper, or have any words of wisdom to impart please don't hesitate. I need all the help I can get.

Trail Shoe Miles: 5.30
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Carolyn in Colorado on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 13:58:46 from 198.241.217.15

Your plan looks good to me. It's similar to what I did the week before the Ogden Marathon.

From Nevels on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 13:59:43 from 131.204.15.93

After polling the first few throngs of people I saw on the street who follow your blog (odd how they all were wearing identifying t-shirts...), I tend to agree with the masses that it appears to be a good plan. Good luck.

From auntieem on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 16:36:48 from 67.182.145.8

I like your plan; very sane. I'm super excited for you to run your marathon; your training has been so strong!

From Lysa on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 17:36:50 from 76.23.52.240

DRINK!

From JD on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 18:53:19 from 166.128.31.36

I appreciate my throng of dedicated readers making the wise decision to condense the accumulative advice down to a manageable level, both for my sake and the server which facilitates this website. It would have been a mess otherwise.

If you haven't received your "JD Rocks" t-shirt yet, please rest assured, as they have all been shipped out as of 3:00 PM Mountain Standard Time today and will be arriving at your door step any day now.

Carolyn - Your taper helped net you a 3:45 at Ogden, which is my time goal, so I simply copied your plan...thank you.

Nevels - your work in polling the masses has been invaluable. If I succeed in reaching my goal at TOU, you will receive 20.0379% of the credit, with the remainder going to sheer luck.

Auntieem - thank you. I can feel your excitement from over here in Utah, and it means a lot to me. I only wish I were as sane as my taper plan.

Lysa - this familiar cheer coming from you, as in days of yore, compels me to...DRINK!

Tonight I'm off for some open mic silliness. It's been a while...

From Snoqualmie on Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 20:44:13 from 24.18.192.33

Sounds good to me. I read once that Roger Bannister took a whole week off and went up into the mountains right before breaking the 4 minute mile. I think most of the benefit of running this week is mental.

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