AM - 30 minutes on the spin bike. Maybe at 10% effort. Just wanted to get a little blood flowing to my legs and finish reading the book Rob let me borrow - Ron Clarke's The Unforgiving Minute. Clarke was a blue-collar runner, there's no doubt about that! PM - Walk-fest. Made it an entire lap around SHP w/ Andrea and Allie. A couple of my favorite quotes from the book... the long one is especially good... "...still I cannot define precisely my joy in running. There is no sacrifice in it. I lead what I regard as a normal life... in my case I thoroughly enjoy running 100-odd miles a week. If I didn't, I wouldn't do it. Who can define happiness? To some, happiness is a warm puppy or a glass of cold beer. To me, happiness is running in the hills with my mates around me." "The impulse to make an excuse is natural in most of us. It is so easy to be self-centered, to make excuses for defeats, and not to concede that others might have excuses when victory is yours. The man who continually makes excuses is always suspect because if he honestly believes the excuses are valid there is no reason for him to tell everybody about them. He is merely trying to assuage his hurt pride and take some credit away from the victor. What he should do, after acknowledging that the better man won on the day, is to become more determined to win the next time. After all, when a man steps on to a track he virtually accepts that the contest is fair and even, no matter how many ailments he is suffering or how much bad luck he is likely to meet." "You have only one life and it's futile looking back upon it and regretting that you didn't do something when you were capable of doing it."
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