The Perils of Self Betterment

December 21, 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
11.30

11.3 miles / 8:38 avg. From work. Overcast, 36F. 

Just an average run on an average day by a slightly slower than average mid-pack runner.

WT 59.3 miles

Junk Shoes Miles: 11.30
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From nevels on Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 14:30:09 from 155.74.2.253

that's so mean

From JD on Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 15:28:50 from 70.96.78.149

Mean? Like Joe Green? Like Martin Sheen? Like Jimmy Dean?

From Lysa on Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 16:58:57 from 50.8.107.35

mean like quit saying you are average, your making me feel much much much below average. Just shut up JD.

From nevels on Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 17:05:27 from 155.74.2.253

mean = [SUM(x1+x2+...x(n-1)+xn)]/n

From JD on Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 17:33:35 from 70.96.78.149

Lysa - a wise man once told me "speed is relative...". Also, in relative terms, you and I are pretty close to the same speed as runners of different sexes.

Additionally I would like to say that I've been obsessed with my inherent mediocrity my whole life. I take great pride in my average-ness.

Nevels - as a non math kind of guy, you just caused my brain to explode. Thank you.

From Lysa on Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 17:45:12 from 50.8.107.35

JD, I know you are obsessed with your average-ness but the whole thing about you and I being the same speed as runners of different sexes?? you just made my head explode.

From Metcalf Running on Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:30:13 from 207.225.192.66

Nice mid-week run!

From nevels on Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:42:10 from 155.74.2.253

so you're proud of you above-average average-ness...

(does that skew the overall average upward, making your claim to inherent mediocrity untrue by it's own higher average?)

From JD on Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 11:41:57 from 70.96.78.149

Hmmm, good point Nevels. However, no matter how average I am, I'm still just average, rendering my phenomenal average-ness merely average on all scales of measurement. No matter how much I strive for an above average average-ness, I am, and will always remain, merely average.

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