| Location: AL,USA Member Since: Jun 14, 2008 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: I've finished a couple of races here and there... Short-Term Running Goals: Maybe one day I'll be enough of a runner to run a race. maybe not...
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 165.60 | 3.60 | 5.90 | 0.00 | 175.10 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| "A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities." - William Arthur Ward | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.20 | 0.00 | 2.80 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| "If you have the opportunity to play this game of life, you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed." - Kanye West | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." - Paul Dirac | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| "Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 31.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 31.00 |
| Delano 12, but had to cut it off at 50k (4:27:xx). Waited a couple hours after finishing, then hopped on a plane to Korea for a few days for work... (back as of Thursday noon-ish... bit of a whirlwind trip...) | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 7.10 |
| fun little 5k; just fast enough to stay up front. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| too good of weather to not run... | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| fun run... more about it on tomorrow's entry... | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Usually rain doesn't justify a change in the running schedule, be it a
delay, cancellation, or otherwise. Such alterations can all too easily
transform into a wholly unjustified excuse, and as a friend's sister
used to say, "Excuses are like bellybuttons; everybody has one, and none
of them taste good."
However, yesterday had the perfect
combination work delays, radar reflections, and available time to make
the gamble of a future mental battle worth it.
A call to try to
calm a very nervous coworker en route to an OCONUS TDY location had me
leaving the office a bit later than normal, which allowed a few
last-minute checks of various weather radars. If my estimations were
remotely accurate, the line of rain and storms looked like they would be
through the area a smidgen over and hour later.
This
guesstimation, combined with the later sunsets of Daylight Savings Time
and one of those rare nights free of other obligations, seemed like
just cause to grab a nap, then hit the road.
Admittedly, the nap
lasted about fifteen or twenty minutes longer than planned, but the
subsequent run made the gamble entirely worth the while.
Birds
chirping playfully in the bright afternoon sun, the cool, humid air
rushing by, and a general sense of post-storm revival permeated the
streets.
In spite of being slow and sluggish, the environment in
which I found myself and the inherently calming effect of watching the
slow fade of sunset into night made it one of the more enjoyable
ten-milers in recent memory.
We run, walk, trot, jog, bound,
sprint, trek, and otherwise ambulate in so many conditions, both
internal and external, that we sometimes lose sight of the wonder to be
found in our seemingly mundane routines.
...and then
sometimes we get to have a rain delay...
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| "Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo." - Robert Byrne | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.40 | 3.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 6.4 for my Illustrious Father's 64th (plus a few to round out the mileage...)
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| "When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win." - Ed Macauley (...a good thing to remember whilst running past the restaurants and bars on another Friday night run...)
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| not entire sure about the distance on this one... was helping mark a course for a trail race, running the back half before the lead runners caught up... fun stuff. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| "Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity." - Paul Goodman | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| running in the snow in late march in alabama. something's wrong with this picture. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| wuss | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| "I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." - Marshall McLuhan | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| "You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." - Woody Allen (...challenge accepted, woody...) | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." - Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| "People find life entirely too time-consuming." - Stanislaw J. Lec | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| In case anyone forgot, for those who cared to listen, birds along the route were announcing the significance of the day. Happy Easter, Y'all!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 165.60 | 3.60 | 5.90 | 0.00 | 175.10 |
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