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techshlepy
USA
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SonOfRoxy
426 Posts |
 Posted - August 08 2010 : 22:21:20
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Herb Elliott - the greatest miler of all time
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talesfrmtherear
94 Posts |
Posted - August 12 2010 : 21:23:59
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hmmnn ,this is a hard one to answer .....
THE PRINCIPLE IS COMPETING AGAINST YOURSELF.
ITS ABOUT SELF-IMPROVEMENT ,ABOUT BEING BETTER
THAN YOU WERE THE DAY BEFORE.
steve young
OTHER PEOPLE MAY NOT HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS
FOR ME.....
BUT I HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR MYSELF.
shannon miller
DONT LOWER YOUR EXPECTATIONS TO MEET YOUR PERFORMANCE .
RAISE YOUR LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE TO MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS .
EXPECT THE BEST OF YOURSELF,AND THEN DO WHAT IS NECESSARY TO
MAKE IT A REALITY ..
unknown
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DRic77
USA
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Posted - August 14 2010 : 00:40:56
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Running's meaning has evolved for me! I have been running for about a year and month! I am going on race 46 since January and race 64 since last July. Missississipi Mudds was my 2nd race and I will run it for the 2nd Time today! Everybody's meaning is different, I like to take a positive approach. Although, I do feel like I have been running from something or trying to run somewhere. Sometimes, I feel like Forrest Gump did! Running has helped me get from a negative point in my life to somewhere positive. In 1 year, I have felt so many accomplishments with only only a few disappointments. I completed a half marathon and 2 10ks. Distances that I would have never tried or completed at 220lbs. I have developed friendship that would not be possibly and learned a lot of things with wisdom of running that in past situations I might have not listened to. I feel like my progress is slow but I need patience. I need an on and off switch and know when I should take off and when i should relax and run my own race! These attributes of running will come with time, I am just glad that I started in my late 20's! I am started to run at all!
Running 5K's in Quantity with Quality!!!!!!! |
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techshlepy
USA
698 Posts |
Posted - August 14 2010 : 18:08:28
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...running...an opportunity for reflection and meditation...
Lying in the park on a beautiful day
Sunshine in the grass, and the children play
Siren’s passing, fire engine red
Someone’s house is burning down on a day like this
The evening comes and we’re hanging out
On the front step and a car rolls by with the windows rolled down
And that war song is playing, “why can’t we be friends?”
Someone is screaming and crying in the apartment upstairs
Funny the way it is, if you think about it
Somebody’s going hungry and someone else is eating out
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
Somebody’s heart is broken and it becomes your favorite song
The way your mouth feels in your lovers kiss
Like a pretty bird on a breeze or water to a fish
A bomb blast brings a building crashing to the floor
You hear the laughter while the children play war
Funny the way it is, if you think about it
One kid walks 10 miles to school, another’s dropping out
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
On a soldier’s last breath his baby’s being born
Standing on a bridge, watch the water passing under me
It must’ve been much harder when there was no bridge just water
Now the world is small, remember how it used to be
With mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars
Watch the sky, the jet planes, so far out of my reach
Is there someone up there looking down on me?
Boy chase a bird, so close but every time
He’ll never catch her, but he can’t stop trying...
~ Dave Matthews
EVOLVE...EVOVE...LVOVE...LOVE...PEACE
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TFPIV
USA
1000 Posts |
Posted - August 14 2010 : 20:28:01
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As The Caravan Thunders Onward
On My Way At Last
On My Way At Last
Rush- Caravan (Couldn't you tell)
The sport of running, I really didn't get into until I was 19 years old. I ran just a few weeks of XC for the now parking lot of the Town of Niagara Walmart (formerly known as LaSalle HS), but really...
I really didn't get interested until I was introduced to some guy that is a partner of "Score-This!!!" (Rich Clark) when I was 19. I was introduced to Bond Lake AC and from that point forward, I always traced it back to some student-teacher who had my brother in an Earth Science class at Niagara Wheatfield.
Nice accident I must say.
Tommie P |
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talesfrmtherear
94 Posts |
Posted - August 15 2010 : 00:16:33
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i did the turkey trot 11/06 with my daughter
and came up with the idea to do races.
1/07 i started on my project to run.
it was the jan jog . i was sick but determined .
i can say yikes because i started off last and had this giant fire rescue vehicle following behind me.
i also remember a guy from my work telling me to
"ADAPT and OVERCOME "
this was all about (me,myself and i)
on top of it i had no confidence and i was alone on this project.
i will say i had alot of things stuck in my head and alot of sadness RUNNING ended up being my best source of help
and to me thats PRICELESS
LOREN EISELEY'S STARFISH STORY
quoted from the 1979 book "the star thrower"
Many starfish washed up on shore.A young boy started picking them up
and throwing them into the ocean.Someone saw what he was doing and told him that it was pointless,that there were to many to save, that it wouldn't make a difference.Throwing another starfish into the sea ,
the little boy responded ,"IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE TO THIS ONE."
never underestimate the power of a smile or a kind word |
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techshlepy
USA
698 Posts |
Posted - August 18 2010 : 11:49:05
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
~Henry David Thoreau
EVOLVE...EVOVE...LVOVE...LOVE...PEACE
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OldGermanRunner
USA
213 Posts |
Posted - August 18 2010 : 12:14:54
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But, when we understand ourselves and become more lost, what then?
Insanity?????
OGR
"People do it everyday, they talk to themselves... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage I have, to just run with it."
See you around at the races. |
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techshlepy
USA
698 Posts |
Posted - August 18 2010 : 23:46:28
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
~G.K. Chesterton
"Know thyself?" If I knew myself, I'd run away.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
EVOLVE...EVOVE...LVOVE...LOVE...PEACE |
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techshlepy
USA
698 Posts |
Posted - August 22 2010 : 15:54:11
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...yesterday...it meant one of the longest most torturous runs I have done to date...no reflecting or meditating going on...just alot of wishing...wishing I was one mile closer to the end... each time I looked down at my watch...the only questions I pondered were...Can I make it home?...Will I have to stop at some house along the way to call for a ride?...If I walk, how long will it take me to get home?...Even if I do call, is there anyone there that can come pick me up?...Do I know anyone that lives along the way that can bring me home?..Is it illegal to break in to someone's house to use their phone?...I must either be crazy...or...really do love running...!!!...
EVOLVE...EVOVE...LVOVE...LOVE...PEACE |
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TrischRunner
USA
80 Posts |
Posted - August 22 2010 : 18:39:58
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| Have you ever thought about starting a blog techy? (have one already!?) I would subscribe and enjoy reading about your torments and successes! I had a long run like yours back in the beginning of July - barely made it home, and no, I didn't have anybody to call. I don't think I loved running during or immediately after it. In fact, I was asking myself why I loved it? One thing I don't understand is how people can "push themselves to the max" just to see how far they can go. (but I won't challenge it because I admire that kind of self-discipline and motivation). That's certainly not my idea of running, so when I increase mileage, it certainly takes an emotional toll on me. My reason for running is the spiritual fulfillment and for just moving forward. There are many other reasons, but I'll keep them to myself for now. :-D |
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lonergan09
USA
318 Posts |
Posted - August 22 2010 : 20:29:12
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A few years ago I was driving from Florida back to Buffalo after the holidays. I spent the night in a town called Hillsvile in Virgina. I couldn't wait to get up the next morning to go out for a run in this town which is aptly named after its terrain, ... hills, hills, hills, ...
At 4 AM I popped out of bed and frustratingly saw that it was raining out, ... hmmm, no run. I had been waiting to stop in this town for quite some time and was really looking forward to get a run in.
Not wanting to miss a run entirely I decided to go to the exercise room for a few miles on the treadmill. However, this exercise room turned out only to have an inplace bicycle and a ping pong table. Upset, I headed back to my room. The "exercise" room was in an adjacent building so I had to go out in the rain to get from one building to the other. This isn't too bad I thought and headed out on the roads in the rain
Its about 3 miles from my hotel to "downtown" with about 2 miles of roads in the town and then 3 miles back with some real nice "Chestnut Ridgey" kind of hills. There was some construction on the road and cones marked off the shoulder on each side.
On my way back I was running right into traffic in complete darkness. I could see in the distance an 18 wheeler truck was coming at me. Looking to my left I could see the cones but nothing beyond them, ... was there road there or a ditch?
As the truck sped towards my eyes darted left and right to see if there was any place to go. When the truck's lights came right on me I couldn't even see forward anymore. My only hope was to put my foot to the left of that cone and hope there was some solid ground over there.
Thankfully there was and the truck sped by.
Returning to the road and coming to the top of the hill I set back into my pace and relaxed for the last stretch back to the hotel.
Then it occurred to me, ... here I am on January 2nd, on a Sunday, at 5 Am in the morning running up a hill in the dark and in the rain, ... and I thought to myself, ... why am I enjoying this? |
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pearman
Canada
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Posted - August 22 2010 : 23:33:08
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"Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as a diamond; it made him weary beyond comprehension. But it also made him free."
— John L. Parker, Jr.
“What I mean is that some see a race, and they think that’s what you do. They sort of know you had to train, but they weren’t watching then, so they don’t understand how incredibly much of it there is. But to us, it’s almost the whole thing. Racing is just this little tiny ritual we go through after everything else has been done. It’s a hood ornament.” – Bruce Denton(Again to Carthage)
Here's my running blog http://runperryrun-runperryrun.blogspot.com/
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techshlepy
USA
698 Posts |
Posted - August 24 2010 : 02:52:20
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...I would bore you to insanity...T RUNNA...very cool blog PG...profound quote by JLP Jr...loner...crazy...isn't it...what one will do to get a "run in"...good luck 9/12...cya...
“I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every moment of it.”
~ Unknown
EVOLVE...EVOVE...LVOVE...LOVE...PEACE |
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JF
USA
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Posted - August 30 2010 : 08:55:18
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I haven't run since July 25 because of a hamstring injury and am going NUTS. That says it all.
"In the tumult of men, solitude was my temptation. Now, it is my friend." |
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techshlepy
USA
698 Posts |
Posted - September 07 2010 : 13:40:50
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...I agree...JF...running means...to many people...a way to avoid...as you say...going "NUTS"...I hope you are healthy and on your way back...as I find myself in the final week of a taper...my mind and body seem to play tricks on me...more aches and pains...more doubts and insecurities...more fear...Am I ready to do this again...???...Why do my legs feel so sore...???...Am I just out of shape...???...Do I really want to do this again...???...a nice long hard run out in today's beautiful weather would alleviate most of these feelings...running provides a constant...something to be counted on to make you feel better each day...emotionally....spiritually...physically...even if it is just for a little while...cya...
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.”
~ Thomas S. Szasz
EVOLVE...EVOVE...LVOVE...LOVE...PEACE
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What does running mean to you?
