Archive for December, 2005
Odds and ends at year end
I had a Disney nightmare last night. I dreamed that we were "doing the marathon." I kept asking aloud why the marathon was on Saturday…the half was supposed to be first! For some reason, we were wearing jeans instead of running clothes and we were walking instead of running. As we finished, we started grocery […]
Posted: December 29th, 2005 under General Blather.
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Runners Who Rock
I was flattered when Neca tagged me with a meme called "Runners who rock." Being a consistently slow (and slow, but consistent!) runner, I never think of myself as "rocking." (I more thinking of myself as rolling….) But I guess we can all rock in our own way, right?
As part of the meme, I must […]
Posted: December 20th, 2005 under General Blather.
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Of luck, work, and energy
"The harder I work, the luckier I get."
I ran across this quote, attributed to Samuel Goldwyn, earlier this week. Aaron and I had just had an extensive discussion about "luck." He thinks life is a total crapshoot. I think that, to a certain extent, we make our own luck.
Then today, I had to […]
Posted: December 10th, 2005 under General Blather.
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Hitting the wall and more
There has been a thread on one of my mail lists about what to do when you "hit the wall" in a marathon.
I can’t say I’ve ever actually hit the wall (or have I conveniently forgotten it, kind of like the work of childbirth?). But the marathon (or ultramarathon) is just like life. There are […]
Posted: December 7th, 2005 under General Blather.
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