The Perils of Self Betterment

March 28, 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
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no run today. Annie and i did get out for a two mile walk on the parkway - nice day for a run but i'm just not feeling it. listening to my body.

spent the last couple of hours reading my running blog posts from 2009...where is that guy? :-)

WT 17 miles

Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Rob Murphy on Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 14:43:08 from 67.177.28.4

An even better question is where are all the people that used to comment on all those posts and make this blog an interesting place to be?

From allie on Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 14:44:13 from 172.4.198.186

i don't even know the 2009 version of myself. up at 4am to enthusiastically run up hills in ice with no breakfast or coffee? nah. no. not me. never again.

that was the year you could go to pretty much any blog and find a long/insightful/fun/ridiculous conversation. times, how they change.

glad you enjoyed a walk. hope you are enjoying all that snow as well. :)

From JD on Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 15:14:54 from 75.169.44.222

thanks you guys!

ha yes there was a lot of activity here on the blog for a few years it seems. maybe the rise in all the multitudes of social media took everyone away. i know that i have spent less time on the blog as i've cut way back on running the last several years but this year is looking like a "run year" for me finally as i'm feeling like building some mileage into my life again. i'll try to spice up my posts as i document my old man, midpack journey into the mileage base abyss. look out! fifty mile weeks ahead! lol

allie - hoping to enjoy sliding down a snowy mountain soon!

From JD on Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 15:49:58 from 75.169.44.222

AND i should also mention that i've been following your blogs most of the time and am inspired by your continued commitment and dedication to the run - and to life in general

From Tracy on Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 14:42:25 from 50.103.111.71

Hey all! I am another old timer who was a little more of a lurker than a participant, but I miss the frequent and regular commentators, too.

From Tom K on Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 19:11:07 from 66.87.148.191

I've been reading old blog notes lately, too. I don't have to go all the way back to 2009 to find a faster version of me, though. That guy did well as recently as 2014!

Like you, I've been laying low for a while, and logging noncommittal miles. I've done nothing too long, fast, or interesting. I'm going to try to make that different this year. Good luck this year to you!

From JD on Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 19:34:05 from 75.169.57.147

Tracy! any good recently read book recommendations?

thanks Tom K. man you race a lot. speedy too! my fastest year was 2012 and my pr's are nowhere as quick as yours. good luck to you as well this season -

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