Blogging is funny. At least for me, what ends up on the page is never what I originally intended to write. Turning ephemeral thoughts into digital sentences is arduous. Posts take on lives of their own, twisting into tangents, hopping down unexpected avenues, taking on a tone unforseen. Perhaps if I was a better writer, […]
I needed to run tonight. Really, you could barely call what I did “a run”, but I needed to do it nonetheless. It may have even been detrimental to my body and my immediate future of running, but I’d have sooner cut my feet off then have gone another day without running. Maybe I did […]
Saturday was a brutal, desire-killing, I’m-never-running-again run. I missed running with the usual suspects Saturday morning due to other life, so I went singularly around the ‘hood near to 1:30 pm. Disgustingly hot and humid, I cried and dry-heaved my way to a little less than 7 miles in a little under an hour, but […]
Pretty dang happy about the tempo run this morning. 25.25 for the four miles, negative splits of 6.42, 6.18, 6.16, 6.09. Best of all, it was, dare I say, a joyful run. Most positive run I’ve had in a good while. Running is sooooo not about the physical. It’s at least 90% mental, and the […]
Knob has been lifelessly dull lately, much like my run on Saturday morning. Let’s remedy that with a bit of pretentious ladder-building. By all accounts, Saturday was a brutal day to do a long run, so it’s fitting that my long run was brutal. The idea was to trot off ten miles, a click up […]
Terrorism has our whole nation a little on edge, a little freaked out, right? If you received a bomb threat, would you know how to react? Would you become flustered? Well, to help us out here at work, a few months back they (the administration? the Illuminati? Improv Everywhere?) distributed these little yellow cards to […]
So I’m thinking about signing up for the marathon and switching to the Monday/Wednesday morning Gazelles class…. Yesterday was 1000s at the AHS track. Mark me down for 8, all between 3:48 and 3:44. Andre said, “that’s all, that was your fastest?”, but I was going for consistency over time, and was one of the […]
Wilke yesterday. 8 up, 3 backwards, 3 sprints. During, Gilbert said, “you have to get in the weight room.” Well, maybe. Afterwards, Andre said, “you must have felt energetic.” Yeah, I guess. But something has been bothering me…. Is the Gazelles primarily a marathon training group? I didn’t think it was, but often the group […]