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
8.50

Early lunch run. 8.5 miles. Sunny, 70F,  it felt warmer.

Easy eight.

Asics 2140 Miles: 8.50
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Nevels on Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 14:54:57 from 131.204.15.93

Your consistent consistency is impressive. keep it up...

From redrooster on Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 15:11:12 from 129.123.3.31

sounds like my run today-same time, same distance. let me know your bib number for tou when you know it so I can look for you.

From JD on Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 15:54:29 from 64.65.159.206

Thanks Nevels...shouldn't you be training for a 100 miler about now?

Rooster - your eight miler today was a bit faster than mine...by about a minute per mile.

I didn't get lodgings for the day before the race, so I have to pick up my packet the morning of the race, I'll be driving from Farmington that morning, so I won't know my bib# until 5:00 AM. But I'll try looking for you, if I'm still coherent at that stage of the race! Lol!

From Carolyn in Colorado on Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 17:39:31 from 198.241.174.15

I'm stuck at 6s for my easy days. I keep thinking of you and your easy eights and wondering whether I should up it. Easy six just doesn't roll off the tongue like easy eight.

From JD on Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 19:43:02 from 166.203.246.13

Carolyn - I don't remember where I got it in my head that 8 miles should be my sort of baseline run, but I try to do it most days unless it's a recovery run or I'm tapering, or unless I feel like crap that day, or if I just don't feel like it. "Discipline" isn't really a strong suit of mine.

You could call them "super six" or, "sleek six" or, "strong six"...you're right, it's hard to get that to roll off the tongue smoothly.

From Carolyn in Colorado on Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 20:07:33 from 24.8.167.243

Maybe stupid six.

From Lysa on Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 21:15:50 from 76.23.52.240

nice easy eight. you are frickin awesome.

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