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
50.10
Asics 2140 Miles: 17.50Asics 1130 Bronze Miles: 8.00Asics DS 13 Miles: 5.00Trail Shoe Miles: 19.60
Weight: 0.00
Total Distance
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Complete and utter rest today. (Except for the mowing of the lawn, the washing of the dishes and the shopping of the food). 

I loved reading the race reports from yesterday. Runners are a special breed...

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Comments(2)
Total Distance
9.50

Early lunch run. Not early enough. I don't know what the temp was when I started, but it was 84 degrees when I got back.

I was going to run this morning but got woken up several times throughout the night. At 3:00 AM I was listening to the sound of a dog urinating on the wood floor in the kitchen...so I had to get up and clean that up. It's been a while since I last had to clean up dog urine in the house, I've really missed it.

Asics 2140 Miles: 9.50
Weight: 0.00
Comments(6)
Total Distance
8.00

Hot lunch on the Bluff trail, 84 or so degrees, good times. Easy(easy,easy,easy) 8 miles. Another 5:30 alarm slept through.

Asics 1130 Bronze Miles: 8.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(8)
Total Distance
14.20

6:00 AM -  9 miles from the house to LPT out and back. Cloudy, light, 65F, some light rain for a bit.

My legs have been tired all week, today was no exception.

 

1:00 PM - 5 easy one mile loops on the boardwalk at the nature preserve. Sunny, 71 degrees and 10 mph breezes to cool me down. It's funny how in the winter even a 1 mph headwind will make me angry, but when it's hot outside almost any wind is a relief.

Asics DS 13 Miles: 5.00Trail Shoe Miles: 9.20
Weight: 0.00
Comments(14)
Total Distance
8.00

Like an old car in need of a tune up, with an 1/8th tank of sediment, rolling on square wheels.

Asics 2140 Miles: 8.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(7)
Total Distance
10.40

Got out for an early lunch (10:30 AM) on the Bluff trail. Sun, 75F, light breeze.

Comparing todays run to yesterdays is like night and day; yesterday being nightmarish, today being all day-glo and happiness.

Got my 50 miles this week so I'm going to take a much needed day off tommorrow, which means only 5 days running this week (I took Sunday off also),  so I can rest, and so I can get back on my Sunday through Friday running schedule for the Summer.

Trail Shoe Miles: 10.40
Weight: 0.00
Comments(9)
Total Distance
50.10
Asics 2140 Miles: 17.50Asics 1130 Bronze Miles: 8.00Asics DS 13 Miles: 5.00Trail Shoe Miles: 19.60
Weight: 0.00
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