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
18.20

AM - Easy commute run. 9.1 miles / 9:52 avg. from home to work. It's been awhile since I've run early in the morning. I've always wanted to run to work but couldn't figure out a route that wouldn't involve lots of rush hour traffic and narrows shoulders etc. Thanks to Andy (on the blog), who had blogged about running on the "Kaysville Poop Trail" as he calls it, or KPT, I suddenly had my route. The trail lays over an old rail line, and I didn't know it existed.  It's a 3.7 mile run from my house to get to the trail and it spits me out about a mile from my work place. Perfect. The first two miles from my house there is some traffic to deal with, but then it's quiet secondary streets, and then of course the trail way, which is very peaceful and has a rural element to it. The last mile of the run is mostly a low traffic residential street and then a cut through a bank parking lot and then across Main street which fronts our shop. I ran a very easy pace this morning and just enjoyed being in slow motion.

PM- Ran home. 9.1 miles / 8:21 avg. The run home was the most fun I've had on a run in a while. Mile splits: 8:05, 8:23, 8:16, 8:39, 837, 8:11, 8:19, 8:23, 8:23, + .1 @ 7:44 pace.

GSS 3 (2) Miles: 9.10Mizuno Wave 12 Miles: 9.10
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Snoqualmie on Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:15:09 from 24.18.192.33

Running to work - I love it! It seems like the epitome of A Running Lifestyle, if there is such a thing. Great discovery!

From Lysa on Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 14:43:26 from 174.52.15.101

sounds nice. I love finding new trails, its the best.

From Lysa on Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 14:44:45 from 174.52.15.101

{"best" said with Jack Blacks accent on nacho libre}

From Carolyn in Colorado on Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 19:36:03 from 24.8.167.243

Kudos for running to work. Now how are you going to get home?

From april27 on Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 20:01:06 from 99.188.251.180

That is awesome! I"m 12 miles from work...I wouldn't know how would get home after?

From JD on Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 20:33:55 from 209.183.51.130

True Sno - It would be nice if I could do it every day.

New trails are the best Lysa. The best! (Best said with the voice of Banya (sp) on Seinfeld).

Carolyn - refer to my PM edit. I wasn't sure if it would work out but it was great!

April - 12 miles would be pushing it. Especially going both ways.

From Carolyn in Colorado on Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 21:52:36 from 24.8.167.243

Wow. That's quite the double you did today, especially with the speedy run home. Impressive.

From Nevels on Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 23:51:37 from 131.204.218.133

I'm somewhat hesitant to ask... but how did the trail get its name?

From Andy on Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:41:16 from 199.190.170.29

Amazing how your PM run was so great after already putting in 9 miles in the morning.

I called it the "poop" trail because there was a lot of horse and dog stuff on the trail and there are a lot of surrounding pastures that were giving off a certain aroma when I ran on it.

From auntieem on Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:38:55 from 24.17.177.218

Gotta love what you call an easy commute run! Nice.

From Marathon Dreamer on Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 20:57:47 from 200.52.168.4

How cool is that!! It sounds really nice. I'm sure this will be a scoot that you will be incorporating into your future workouts!!

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