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
Total Distance
13.00

5:57 AM.  7 miles. Clear, 59 degrees. Round the hood/LPT etc.

Moving really slow this morning. Passed a smoker, inhaled 2nd hand smoke...what's that, like, 48 seconds taken off my life?

Early lunch run. 6 more. Clear, 80 degrees. One mile boardwalk loops at the nature preserve.

There was a tour group out there today, about thirty people. I ran the opposite direction they were going. The boardwalk is 6 feet wide, as I was approaching the goup on the first lap, they parted for me and I ran through the middle of the group while they cheered, gave me high five's etc. It was pretty cool!

Asics DS 13 Miles: 6.00Trail Shoe Miles: 7.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From auntieem on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:00:36 from 67.182.145.8

Wow, its really cold! Good for you for getting out early. I did not; got sucked in to watching Tour De France again. Now I'm gonna take some work outside and watch the runners go by on my street while I work. For some reason, I'm not very motivated today.

From JD on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:07:41 from 64.65.159.206

It's good to give your body (and mind) some well deserved rest. You had that intense race/long run on Saturday and followed up with some good workouts this week.

Enjoy the yard work!

From Lysa on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 22:22:28 from 76.23.52.240

Awesome!! thats a good high to be cheered on all by yourself! I hate running through 2nd hand smoke, even if its just coming out of a house as you pass it, it makes me gag. I also hate it when people are cooking breakfast that early and I run by that, it also makes me kind of gag. Oh ya, and garbage cans. Way to run a 1/2 marathon today!

From Lysa on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 22:24:00 from 76.23.52.240

I got a "five" from a biker that went past me today on my run and it made me happy for awhile. Its nice when two people can acknowledge what the other is doing without any spoken words.

From Adam RW on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 22:43:07 from 98.202.223.65

And what did they do the 6th time you came their way?

From JD on Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 00:13:10 from 32.178.140.198

It was funny, a couple of people in the group had spray bottles and they would squirt me as I passed by. They kept making funny comments when I passed which I couldn't hear. Except I heard one woman say "aren't you hot, and tired?"...I think I felt much less hot and tired than most of them did!

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