The Perils of Self Betterment

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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
Tue, Oct 02, 2012
Total Distance
10.30

10.3 miles before work 8:23 avg- rio grande - south. 2mi. WU, 5 mile tempo, 3 mi. CD. 

splits: 9:16, 8:36, (8:02, 7:57, 8:09, 7:51, 7:54), 8:34, 8:44.

WT 60.5 miles

two eighty-two

Kinvara2 The 3rd Miles: 10.30
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From allie on Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 11:01:19 from 161.38.218.168

282.

From Kam on Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 16:23:59 from 68.66.163.179

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

From Kam on Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 16:29:57 from 68.66.163.179

When I first read your title, my mind read GOATS, and I thought, "That JD is one strange fellow with great taste in footwear." Then I reconsidered. Running with goats might be fun. Maybe they would try to headbutt you, and they would frolic here and there. It would be more entertaining than running in a straight line on the street. And when they got hungry, perhaps they would stop and thoughtfully eat some grass or weeds. Then I realized this flight of fancy was completely in vain. In fact, the title of the blog is "Running with Ghosts."

I don't like running with ghosts. One night I was climbing the switchback trail, and I started thinking about 6th sense. I remembered that there are dead people everywhere. It was dark with a little moonlight and I started freaking myself out with every whisper of wind in the brush. I was glad to be finished that night.

From Kam on Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 16:31:38 from 68.66.163.179

Luckily nobody else was at the park that night, and they couldn't hear me singing at the top of my voice to scare away whatever might be lurking in the bushes to kill me or try to persuade me to find a video tape that was evidence in the grisly poisoning death of a little girl.

From allie on Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 16:52:30 from 97.117.88.228

kam - you need to try liberty park in the dark. especially the area by the ferris wheel.

From JD on Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 18:38:20 from 75.169.91.30

lol! Kam! i'm happy to have inspired such pastoral imaginings. i never thought about running with goats before - and now i have.

speaking of shoes - i just retired a pair of merrell mocs, 7 years old, with a new pair of the exact same shoe. the old pair are now a part of the camping gear wardrobe.

allie - the area by the ferris wheel sounds like a good place for an enterprising young person to make a few extra bucks in the evenings...

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