The Perils of Self Betterment

May 01, 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
Tue, Aug 11, 2009
Total Distance
10.30

9:45 AM. Clear, 79F. Urban assault from the shop.

Kind of a weird time of day for me to run, but that's how it had to go down today. I'm actually kind of liking running the roads around here. Early enough in the day the traffic isn't too bad. Around mile 6 I found myself at the high school track and did a couple of miles there. I ran a couple of quarters "fast". It wasn't speed work, I just wanted to see how fast I could go while still maintaining a relaxed form. the quarters were 97 and 95 seconds with a quarter easy in between. That's a 6:24 pace. I'm thinking maybe I could break a 6:30 for a mile today.

In high school my senior year, our PE coach whimsically had us run a mile one day. Me and another kid, the high school "burnout", beat the class and ran around 5:40. I often wonder if I had gotten into track in high school how I would have done. I also wonder if  I could break a 6:00 mile sometime in the future with a little work. Needless to say, I'm not a threat to the local elite runner.

Trail Shoe Miles: 10.30
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From auntieem on Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 14:44:31 from 67.182.145.8

I never did track in high school either, but I could run fast! I sometimes wonder if that's why I like all this training now, just because I never did it before and got it out of my system. Sadly, all we can hope for now is PRs and age division glory.

From Carolyn in Colorado on Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 14:59:39 from 198.241.174.15

I'm in the same boat. I didn't do track in high school and I'm with auntieem in thinking that that's maybe why I'm willing to do it now. I didn't get burned out when I was young. But age division glory will only take you so far. But it is kind of fun to be fit and old.

From Lysa on Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 18:49:34 from 76.23.52.240

6:24 pace??? shizzz, i dont know if we can be friends anymore.

From JD on Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 19:04:19 from 64.65.159.206

Carolyn and Auntieem - I also wonder if our bones and joints are better off for not having been high mileage runners in our 20's.

Lysa - you did see that the pace was for one quarter of a mile only, right? Besides, I didn't know we were friends!?!

From Kelli on Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 20:24:17 from 71.219.82.15

That is a fast mile, you should have run track!!!!

I ran track but was no star, what I should have been doing was running cross country. But back then I thought 3 miles at a time was insane. If I had only known.....

Have a good week JD.

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