am--5.75 DI/Bank/STG. RC Loop. Beautiful autumn morning. Once I got going, my body felt good. I took a little nap yesterday evening, and it screwed up my sleep patterns, so I didn't get much sleep. Is today a nap day? RHR--49.
pm--6.75 Dirt Mile repeats--4x 4:30 w/ 4-min. recovery. I jumped in w/ the JV girls. It's been fun running some workouts w/ them. They are getting stronger and more willing to push the pace. They did well today. Not sure how the quicker pace will affect the old body.
A day late, I finished Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. It’s a great read even with the stilted prose. Along with Moby Dick, the novel must be one of the best treatments of monomaniacal ambition. Yet, here’s a quote, from Victor himself, encouraging Walton’s mutinous crew onward:
Did you not call this a glorious expedition? And wherefore was it glorious? Not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were to brave and overcome. For this was it a glorious, for this was it an honourable undertaking (203).
Now, I’m looking for some time to read some Shelley, Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Milton.
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