Maybe you need a bit of a break Henry. Maybe this LetsRun thing can get stressful at times. You've come a long way. WOW! I'm so inspired by what you have done. But there will be bumps in the road. Have a physical and mental break. don't make any panic decisions.
You'll be OK!
Keep smiling, Henry.
sorry to hear that wrote:
it sounds like you have given up on the serious comeback. sorry to hear it; but you have still made alot of progress in your life, through this comeback. keep the positive thoughts flowing. good luck in your life, Henry!
Do I look, sound negative or feel as I have given up on my comeback? You dont know how to read me.
Fine!!Think for a moment!!! You can't let me take a deep breath?
Okay! Okay! this coming Friday there is masters championships here in Albuquerque. I am going to show you what I will do.Okay just wait.
Friday evening around 7 pm.One mile run or 1500 m.Okay!!!!I am comiiiiiiing!!!!!!
Henry
[quote]Henry Rono wrote:
Do I look, sound negative or feel as I have given up on my comeback? (qupte-Henry Rono)
yes, it does, to be honest; as you know you aren't doing the things you should be doing to proceed on the path toward your goals. You have to be honest with yourself. It is still within in to succeed. YOU just have to decide that it is what you really want and then go down the right path. good luck!
Henry ,
Jambo ! I am proud to know you and have drawn strength from your example. I join you in keeping Alberto Salazar in my prayers - a testament to the need to make every day count. I , too , am running a mile this Friday evening at 7. It will be my first track race in over 30 years. The heat I will be in has a projected time of 5:20 to 5:45 per mile. A few of my neighbors are running in the same heat.
Thank you for giving to the youth of New Mexico through your coaching ( Texas too ). The only advice I have is to - never lose the joy of running. The press will always second guess - have a 3 , 5 , 7 , 10 year plan. Do you dare dream of breaking Derek Turnbull's record for 65+ ?
Keep rolling , young man. I look forward to our first run together one day.
Chase
Hi again, Henry! Hope you're well and that the training is going as you like...
For some reason the first time I wrote this, it was deleted, so I'll try again:
Someone earlier wrote something like you would be going to Kenya. Are you planning to go? Have you been there and come back.
Thanks... and stay positive!
no, that was some wise-guy trying to tell Henry to "go back to Kenya"....some punk just being a punk.
runmad wrote:
Hi again, Henry! Hope you're well and that the training is going as you like...
For some reason the first time I wrote this, it was deleted, so I'll try again:
Someone earlier wrote something like you would be going to Kenya. Are you planning to go? Have you been there and come back.
Thanks... and stay positive!
Some guy who was trying to pain in my ass.
I didn't pay attention to that.My training spirit is gaining power lately.I got distructed today with the incident of my running rival Salazar being sick and his athletes.I believe too much stress that it needs to be reduce to balance some one health.Salazar is under stress.
Henry
Thanks for that... I can see why my question was deleted. I didn't read the original post, so if that was delted, it makes sense to delete my honest question.
Henry Rono wrote:
Some guy who was trying to pain in my ass.
I didn't pay attention to that. My training spirit is gaining power lately.I got distructed today with the incident of my running rival Salazar being sick and his athletes.I believe too much stress that it needs to be reduce to balance some one health. Salazar is under stress.
Henry
Yes, Henry, it's a shame what has happened to
Alberto. I'm sure a lot of people are wishing for his recovery. He ran those two really crazy marathons in the '80s and that no doubt had some effect on him.
I had a dream last night after reading your thread. You were back to 148 lbs and you won a big, masters 5k in 16:48.
you can make that dream a reality! Get serious and don't give up.
Henry Rono should have a sponsor, or simply just a long-term employer, because he has gone full circle, highest peaks and almost pit bottom of the barrell, and is still alive with what looks like a good attitude. That's a lot of experience that could be useful for future generations and those that take care of them. To do things right, and to understand how things can go wrong. And it looks like Henry Rono wants to be constructive about it. I'd invest some trust in this man. Don't overdo it. But i like what i am seeing. sincerely, corrado
I agree; but he needs to get a job to pay his essentials, just to ease that strain on him.
I think it would be a great tie-in for letsrun.com to sponsor him. What do you think?
Hi Henry, Talked with Nobby a little about getting you to Minneapolis for the TC Marathon weekend events (5K). We'll see if there's interest in getting you up here, assuming of course it works out for you. It's in early October. Since you're training has leveled off, maybe an easy 5k jog instead of a race. I think people would love to meet with HENRY RONO and get advice, autographs, etc. Then again, maybe, you will surprise us with a 16:30 5k somewhere!! Can't make any promises yet, other than we will talk to the people at TCM. I should start to find out their ideas on this in a few weeks; I'll let you know. I've followed your training, etc. the last few weeks and it seems that you have hit a plateau. This usually happens, and to go to next level, usually involves a more significant change in training, diet and other variables. That, of course, is up to you, as we all have said, your weight must get down to 150-155 to be competitive in Master's racing. Whatever you do from now on, you have given us admirers a lot of pleasure seeing you drop from 200-plus lbs to 170 (?), and racing again. Keep going up those hiiiiiiiiiiiiiills, Henry!!! STEVE
Henry Rono wrote:
Some guy who was trying to pain in my ass.
I didn't pay attention to that.My training spirit is gaining power lately.I got distructed today with the incident of my running rival Salazar being sick and his athletes.I believe too much stress that it needs to be reduce to balance some one health.Salazar is under stress.
Henry
Whoever sponsors Henry Rono might want to consider doing it not just for the underdog's upward-bound empirical results, i.e. weightloss, faster times, delta improvement and what not, in the standard, well known, narratively abused and ever-so-popular riches-to-rags redemption.
There's too much talent, too many excess pounds, too much money evaporated, too much alcohol, too much cultural difference.
Wonder if it would not be useful to radically eviscerate how someone so great can fall so far down. When you think about the existential spread, it is mindblowing.
Not that it is the first time it happened in the history of humanity. Yet, it would be a amazing if the man who blew away four world records in 81 days could crystallize the devastating dynamics of all the mechanisms that caused his fall. It will make his comeback greater and possibly longlasting. It would be a shame if in the currents of enthusiasm, the opportunity to hear the real story was glossed over in favor of therapeutic (and commercial) visibility.
It would be great to hear it as if it were a race gone wrong, step by step, heartbeat by heartbeat, which however is not yet over and maybe has not yet gone wrong.
But, unless it was really painful to share, it just can't be simply "I was overwhelmed, I started to drink too much, you know when you drink, my performance started to shake, i got depressed, I put on more weight, I lost my money," ect, ect. Understanding the fragility and the inner workings of real talent could be a unique lesson for all to learn. Just an idea.
why not Letsrun wrote:
I think it would be a great tie-in for letsrun.com to sponsor him. What do you think?
The 394 day of training phase II. I ran for 106 minutes this morning with youngsters.
The evening section was also tough as morning section.I put in 41 minutes for this evening section,I think that was enough for today.Lately has been too much pressure,but I can make it through this week.I'am take it one day at the time.
Oh boy! to get the book to publishers is pain in anybody ass.Too many rituals one has to go through.To write it is another and to put it to a publisher is another circle, one has to go through.You think it is hard to run a mile record no way!this one is hardest in my life.
Henry
To Steve Hoag
You nail to the point.At that time I will be enjoying running good times because by then the pressure is off my shoulders.I will have a big neck muscle stress.My running wheels will be rolling forward very easy.Those times you mention will coming in with no sweat in me.
I have a question for you guys.Quads and hamstrings have connection with belly and liver muscles?
Who is the physiologist here?
Henry
Stay tune
To skuj
Skuj thinks smiling comes easy on me. No way!.It cost money for me to smile.I mean the true smiling or the honest one is very expensive.
Meaning I have to training harder to change those chemistry muscles.Think for a moment.I have to do alot of mental and physical drills. I did with my runners this evening and that was a million dollar body exercise.
This is no kidding business.Imagine doing in and out physiological exercises to that smiling means, one has to sweat half gallon of water out of you.
Okay I will keep trying to smiling!
Henry
try eating just 1/2 of what you have been eating every day for the last few months. It's not rocket science or is it some mystic mumbo jumbo. Get real. Get serious.
:)