Dear diary, my body hurts now. Can I stop?
Goal 5
Mileage 5
Total for week: 16.5
Notes: Today, I ran 5 miles around the lake at 430pm. It was a bit of a struggle to get out there because I had not been taking care of myself as well (few hours sleep, no hydration, no lunch)...but the thought of not running and facing the wrath of you lurkers was enough to get me to the trail with my dusty running shoes.
In my first few years as a gazelle, there was this old guy with a new york accent who always ran with us...Dick Wilkowski. I called him Dicky when I saw him on the trail and he always really struck me as one of those athletes that I wanted to be like. Dick is a veteran runner who takes care of himself and trains really intelligently. He also whoops up on many many runners in town who could be his grandchildren. Dick is a class act and he just ran a 47.05 10K this weekend and told me it was one of his faster times in the last few years. I hope I have his strength, wisdom, and humor when I am his age. The last thing he said before we both headed out for our respective runs was " The older I get, the faster my times used to be".
Classic.
Dick is the guy with the white and grey shirt in the photo passing the other guy like he is standing still...
Anyway, I ran around the trail and suffered a little. Splits were 645, 748,738, 722, 709. I was breathing like an old nanny chasing a rat around the kitchen there for most of it. I remember running with DV a few years ago when we hit 720's like they were nothing.
Sigh.
All is good.
3 comments:
Dear Steven S Fletcher, PhD
the lurkers will not be mad if you miss a day or run a human pace. They will be pissed when you blow out a knee, bust a hamstring, loose a testicle, or get a stress fracture... whatever.. and then you are no longer able to run at all...
that would suck for all parties involved... us included. Run smart like Dicky. and maybe you'll still be running like him at his age. Which is just a couple of years away...
..... a lurker.
If you're going to compare yourself to an old nanny and gripe about your sore vagina, at least lie about your splits--- like this 11:04, 11:50, etc.
6:45, 7:09? shameful.....
Jorge, point taken. thanks.
Rich,
That first split is short, it's from Rtex to the mile 4 marker going counterclockwise on the 5 mile loop. It is a few hundred meters shy of a mile. I was prob a 830 pace for that first part.
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