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System Check
Here I am 30 weeks out from my 100 mile race and things haven’t seemed to be going my way as far as the running goes. So I decided it was time to step back and do a “System Check” to get a better perspective. I often do a systems…
Trudging – Again
I headed out yesterday morning for another long run. My goal? To run 20 miles of the new Louisiana Marathon course. I had mapped it out on the map my run website and downloaded it to my Garmin. All I had to do was hit “follow course” and listen for…
D.W.O.
I have always been a very big proponent of visualization techniques. From my early career in running, I used to imagine have a good race or finishing in a certain time or place. And then came along “Chariots of Fire.” After that we all imagined we were running along the…
1 Corinthians 10:24-27
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but…
Progress?
With the heat these days, it is hard to tell if I am making any progress in my training. As I mentioned a few posts back, there are no easy runs anymore. So I cannot say that yesterday’s eight mile run was “easy” compared to a similar run back in…
Fear Induced Ignorance
I was scared of a lot of things when I was a kid. When I was about 8 years old I saw a book about old horror movies in the library at Sherwood Elementary School. One particularly vivid image was a scene from a movie where this man “thought” he…
Scorched Earth
I woke up around 3 AM this morning for a trip to Clear Springs Mississippi to run the trails. Susan, Jeremy, Holly & I had run there in January when training for the Mountain Mist 50K. When I heard Susan & company were heading up there to ride mountain bikes,…
No Such Thing As Easy
After my run last night, I have decided that there is no such thing as easy anymore. At least right now there isn’t. We had an extremely busy weekend where we drove from Gonzales to Texas A&M to Shreveport on Friday, watched an outdoor swim meet (1022 degrees) on Saturday…
Chicken
I got chicken today and I didn’t run. I was supposed to run around 8 miles today. With the way my leg felt, I decided to switch my workouts around and run 4 to 5 instead. And then a monsoon hit at work today. As I was standing there watching…