The Perils of Self Betterment

April 23, 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
10.00

10 cold, frigid, slippery, slow miles. Bluff trail. Partly sunny, 17F, windchill 7F with wind out of the northwest at 9 to 12 mph. Crazy footing.

WT 41.1 miles

Bandito's Miles: 10.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Lysa on Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 16:38:37 from 50.8.107.35

Wow. You are very brave. I am very weak. what did you wear?

From JD on Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 18:07:35 from 70.96.78.149

Okay Lysa, from the bottom:

Asics Bandito's shoes. These are light weight trainers with holes in the soles, but with as cold as it was, I knew water wasn't going to be a problem. Ankle high cotton socks (I only wear cotton on my feet).

Asics pants over Asics shorts.

A long sleeve, turlteneck, half zippered, polyester shirt from REI that I've had for like 10 years, under a long sleeve tech shirt from 2009 Ogden half marathon.

A Marmot Precip jacket (thanks for the tip Allie) which I can't say enough good things about.

A pair of Race Ready glove liners under a pair of Manzella Windstopper gloves. These gloves, by the way, are literally "the bomb" and well worth getting if you plan on running outdoors in the winter.

Finally, on my noggin, a wigwam winter hat.

In spite of the temperature, and wind, I was toasty and comfortable, especially once warmed up.

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