The Perils of Self Betterment

December 22, 2024

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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
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work was pretty crazy for me this week and i decided it was a good time to take a two day break from running during this slow mileage build up. i'm hoping to move my weekly totals into the 40 miles range the next couple of weeks. it's amazing how much longer it's taking me now than it did just 8 years ago. i guess at my age 8 years of aging manifests itself much differently than when i was in my forties. 

my wife and i have been taking daily walks since our twentieth anniversary on march 8th. so we've been at it a couple of months now. we do have one day a week as an elective day off because we're so busy all the time. most of the walks have been 1/2 mile to 2 miles. todays we covered over 3 1/2 miles! we were out for an hour and fifteen minutes. it's kind of nice to just drop everything and take a walk; kind of a break from the world. feels a little old skool to go on a walk in this day and age.

so, hoping to to hit 35 miles this week then 40 ish the following week. then work up tp 50 mpw in june and maintain at least that until ski season...

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Comments
From Rob Murphy on Sun, May 14, 2017 at 14:02:43 from 67.166.78.47

I'm a big fan of walking.

From allie on Sun, May 14, 2017 at 14:10:47 from 71.56.28.146

agree, walks are kool.

happy 20 years -- that's awesome. james and i will hit 5 this june and i can't believe it.

moms, memorials, and grads -- i just realized the may triple whammy. good luck with the rest of the month.

From JD on Sun, May 14, 2017 at 14:19:15 from 75.169.233.78

one of the many things i admire about you Rob.

five years allie! that flew by. busy times, throw weddings into the mix as well. thanks!

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