You mean everyone doesn't do this?

one of the ultrarunning email lists of which i'm a member posed a simple question earlier today:  what are your goals for 2011, and since i think it will hopefully kickstart my training to have some stated goals, i put them down, and since some might be curious, my response to the list was as follows:

run a fast 100 (another sub-20, maybe sub-19, maybe even a little crazier than that...)
run an epic 100 (in the eye of the beholder, i suppose, but i'm the beholder, so....)
snag some more pr's in 5k, 10k, marathon, 50k

run a crap ton in between (yes, crap-ton is a unit of distance)

let's see if i can catch one or more of these...

"Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile.   The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is." - Hugh Macleod 

cool-ish, slightly time-constrained, but certainly enjoyable (but isn't that how we could describe most winter runs...?)

(and, since i know allie is on a search for certain words, i can assure you that there was nothing crappy about this run... aside, perhaps, from the fact that it had to end far too soon)

...and every once in a while you have a run that reminds you why you enjoy such an inherently ludicrous sport...

"The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes.  Let the reader catch his own breath." - Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart