Goal: Sub 35min 10km October 14th 2007

I love you too.

Good luck.

Peace and Love to you too.

I suggest upping your mileage, even if the miles are 9:00-10:00 each. Use the Japanese approach, and callous those muscle fibers!!

Jason

Thank you Mr Letsrun and the one and only Jason. You are beautiful people.

Jason, I do recall that you had some kind of surgery. Was it achilles? How are you doing in your recovery from this?

Jason, I have sometimes run with other people at 9-10min per mile pace, and I have to say that this is most unpleasant. It actually hurts to do this. My lower back gets stiff, my forefeet ache due to different landing postures.

I do agree that more miles would help though. Sigh, life schedules can be so demanding at times. But I very much appreciate this wise advice, and will take it to heart.

Thank you all for reading this thread. Peace and love.

My Dreams Will Become Reality wrote:

Letsrun, I love you. Together, with your help and encouragement, I can achieve a dream...

You must be new here.

Together, arm in arm, letsrun and I will cross the line in under 35min. We shall all celebrate on October 14th.

Today was a long work day, but I managed an evening 4 miler, untimed, followed by 4x100m strides up a slight incline.

Before I go running today, I thought I'd select a poem that is pertinent. Peace and Love to you all on your runs today.

I'm Alive, I Believe In Everything

Self. Brotherhood. God. Zeus. Communism.

Capitalism. Buddha. Vinyl records. Letsrun.

Baseball. Ink. Trees. Cures for disease.

Saltwater. Literature. Walking. Waking.

Arguments. Decisions. Ambiguity. Absolutes.

Presence. Absence. Positive and Negative.

Empathy. Apathy. Sympathy and entropy.

Verbs are necessary. So are nouns.

Empty skies. Dark vacuums of night.

Visions. Revisions. Innocence. Trollism.

I've seen All the empty spaces yet to be filled.

I've heard All of the sounds that will collect

at the end of the world.

And the silence that follows.

I'm alive, I believe in everything

I'm alive, I believe in it all.

Waves lapping on the shore.

Skies on fire at sunset.

Old men dancing on the streets.

Paradox and possibility.

Sense and sensibility.

Cold logic and half truth.

Final steps and first impressions.

Fools and fine intelligence.

Chaos and clean horizons.

Vague notions and concrete certainty.

Optimism in the face of adversity.

I'm alive, I believe in everything

I'm alive, I believe in it all.

Adapted from a peom by Lesley Choyce

YOU ARE A POET

BUT YOU DON'T KNOWIT

BUT YOUR FEET SHOWIT

COS THEY'RE LONGFELLOWS!

Please keep us informed on a steady basis as to how you are doing. Your posts are so energetic.

May I suggest a slight change in ONE DAY of your weekly running routine? If you could change that one day to include a sprint start to a 5-7 mile run your goals would be attained for sure. Make the first mile a hard sprint race, as hard as you can go, fighting to keep from drifting into fast tempo. At the end of the mile keep going, concentrate on leg turnover and tempo but try relax more. If you could include that first mile in one workout your legspeed would increase in leaps and bounds and your stamina would soar.

JoggerGerry wrote:

YOU ARE A POET

BUT YOU DON'T KNOWIT

BUT YOUR FEET SHOWIT

COS THEY'RE LONGFELLOWS!

Please keep us informed on a steady basis as to how you are doing. Your posts are so energetic.

May I suggest a slight change in ONE DAY of your weekly running routine? If you could change that one day to include a sprint start to a 5-7 mile run your goals would be attained for sure. Make the first mile a hard sprint race, as hard as you can go, fighting to keep from drifting into fast tempo. At the end of the mile keep going, concentrate on leg turnover and tempo but try relax more. If you could include that first mile in one workout your legspeed would increase in leaps and bounds and your stamina would soar.

Gerry Lindgren, I am beside myself with joy that you have responded on this thread. You are a great hero to me. I shall take your advice to heart and body and soul and mind. I really do want to see your book, Gerry. Have a wonderful day.

Darn it; I just couldn't summon the energy to run today after a long day. I'll do a longish run tomorrow. Come with me, Letsrun. Help me. My achievement will be your achievement.

By chance, are you in any way... uh..... related to Gabe Jennings?

You and Gerry should just correspond by email

What is Mr Jennings up to this year, I ponder? It's funny, these last 2 posts, because I do indeed regard Gabe and The Great Gerry as people who think outside the box, and norms-be-damned, a way of Being which I ascribe to. I think I will email Gerry, thank you. Until tomorrow, my friends. May your dreams become reality. Goodnight.

Good day my letsrunner friends. How does this fine day find you all?

Today I took the advice of that great man Jason Mayeroff, and did an easy, relaxing longer run, of 1hr15min. It was very enjoyable. The sun shone brightly, and slightly golden, a hint that Fall is just around the corner. A breeze blew gently. The route meandered, and climbed, and descended, rather like....

Life's Journey

You are the earth, and I the sea,

You hold and nurture me

While I play restless in your arms.

The sun warms and lifts me from your gentle touch,

Into the vast oceans of the universe,

Where I dart and fly in my human race with time and space,

Until in the light I blend,

Misty eyed with nature I transcend,

Like a raindrop drifting in the wind,

Then touching softly your arms again,

Knowing now life never ends,

Feeling now the peace within.

Copyright (c), Joy Light, 1992

Good day my letsrunner friends? How are you finding this day?

The Great Gerry did ask me to keep updating, and so I shall. I hope this modest thread is not a burden to letsrunning. I simply share my love of the world and the joy of my running.

Since my last report, I carried out the following:

July 31st - 10min jog, 3x1mile on a well measured trail, 5:54,5:39,5:32, 5min jog.

August 1st - 40min jog along the riverside.

August 2nd - 5km jog, 5x300m, 80,65,56,52,48, 5km jog.

I am so happy in my running ever since I decided on this quite lofty (for me) goal. I am not afraid of it. It is merely there, to cause my running to be more purposeful and organized. It becons me. It inspires. It is what it is.