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
8.00

Easy 8/1:08:35/ 8:38 avg.  From work. Sunny, 48F. The weather gods are still with me.

Splits: 9:03, 9:04, 9:00, 8:29, 8:33, 8:21, 8:14, 8:07.

Mizuno Wave 12 Miles: 8.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Carolyn in Colorado on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 13:34:49 from 24.8.167.243

You're really stringing together those easy eights.

You're being too possessive of weather gods. You need to send them over here. We're cold and wet.

From auntieem on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 13:58:08 from 67.182.145.8

That sounds like perfect weather to me! I bet its low humidity too. I am very jealous.

From Lysa on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 14:27:19 from 76.23.52.240

good 8 miler. those are always fun, perfect runs.

From Nevels on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 14:36:21 from 131.204.15.93

negative splits; i did one of those once, a long time ago...

From JD on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 16:55:54 from 70.96.78.157

Carolyn - stay away from my weather gods...they're on a roll.

Auntieem - humidity is currently at 44%. I don't keep very close track, so I don't know if that is high or low or what. And yes, the weather is perfect.

Lysa - Eight miles does make a good run...they're fun...your sister's a nun...I'm done.

Nevels - does anyone ever negative split an ultra? Nice job on last weekends 50 miler BTW. You're looking primed for Pinhoti.

From Burt on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 19:42:01 from 68.76.197.194

I was going to tell you what nice negative splits you had, but Nevels already did, so I will say nothing.

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