Top Cat,
Give that left leg a breather. Go low impact, for me that's X-C skiing. And yes try the acupunture, regardless of cost. What means do we have to take any of this with us in the end. Carpe Diem and Happy Thanks Giving.
Top Cat,
Give that left leg a breather. Go low impact, for me that's X-C skiing. And yes try the acupunture, regardless of cost. What means do we have to take any of this with us in the end. Carpe Diem and Happy Thanks Giving.
It's Thanksgiving, not Thanks Giving, retard.
Happy THanksgiving
clueless guy wrote:
Inside every old person is a young person asking "what the hell happened?"
Oh yea! This year has been the worst. How have Frank and Bill been able to continue to run so long? They are only a few years older than I am. I have not put in as many miles as they. Life is hard, then you die.
I had a bad case of PF and related overly-mobile foot injuries end my phase I (semi-serious) running/racing career. I raced for several years on the bike (and actually did relatively better than running when I selected the right -- hilly -- events).
Phase II had periodic problems and serious running tended to bring problems back (trying to run a marathon at age 40; stopped several weeks short); several years later when I could no longer go under 6:00/mile for 10K I essentially stopped racing.
Tried to gear up at 50 for a marathon and was curtailed even more quickly. Half a dozen years later I tried upping the mileage again (vs riding) and just as I thought about a 1:3x half, my back (2 herniated disks) acted up.
Throughout I have continued to ride and I keep in decent condition, but racing is not a big deal. Slowly but surely things readjust in my life. I suppose that this board and T&FN are a form of 'compensation' but you do what you can and you do not have to do things that you had thought were the things that defined you.
Life's a bitch; then you get sick and die. Maybe is was not so much a bitch before. What I think that I miss most is the power that I feel I can use when I am in really good shape.
Great essay. I guess proper attribution belongs to the author Roger Hart:"Runners" by Roger Hart © Copyright 2001 Roger Hart. This work first appeared in Natural Bridge, the literary magazine of the University of Missouri-St. Louis.Some info about Roger Hart from Scott Dunlap at http://runtrails.blogspot.com/2006/07/runners-great-story-by-acclaimed.htmlRoger Hart is an Creative Writing Instructor at Ohio University, and boasts a 2:27:48 marathon PR. If you like this story, you can order Erratics, his collection of short stories that won the George Garrett Fiction Prize. Roger is currently working on a novel, and assures me he still gets out regularly to run!
Slowing Down wrote:
WE RAN THROUGH BLIZZARDS, THUNDERSTORMS, ...
We learned we were alive, and it felt good. God, it felt so good
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