Every once in a while it's good to get fired up when you run.
Used to date a lady a long time ago, one of us was always mad at the other, we had a lot of fast runs back then! Could have been that we were younger, I think it was the conversation.
Memories of that came flooding back last night as I ran with two acquaintances. We were just chugging along, nothing special. Then we did something one should rarely do in a social setting, we talked politics. Yoikes! Bad idea (well good if you are looking for speed work.)
Anyway, turns out Rush, Sean, Drudge, Snitch (er Schnit, Schmidtz, whatever his name is) their bullshmitz rhetoric is still working on large quantities of the uninformed (Gee I didn't know that O'bama was a Muslim Terrorist, oh, really and who told you that?) (Oh, the anti-christ, wow, how does he feel about separation of anti-church and state?)
Like I said, politics, ugg! I should know better! But I did run those last two miles in about 14 minutes and I left before the brews were cracked, so there was no temptation there. Next week I'm running with the "Young Christian Skin Heads For War but Against Interracial or Same Sex Anything" I hope to get my mile time down under 6 minutes again!
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"You know what I call the guy who's DFL? A finisher!" Overhead at the back of the pack at Western States in 2009. It meant a lot more to me at the end than it did at mile 3 when I heard it.
"Hey were you DFL at Western States? So was I!" Some dude named Steve that I met at Umstead. He was DFL in 2006, I was DFL in 09.
Becky talking about the need for training partners, "It takes a village to run a 100-miler." June's reply, "Yeah, a village Idiot!" Priceless June Bug, priceless!
“We are not in a hurry anymore.” Roger to his crew as he entered Camp 10 Bear for the first time in the Vermont 100, Ouch! Darn evil doctors!
"Road Marathons Suck!" Words of wisdom from Professor ACG. Listen to him, he knows of what he speaks!
"It's slippery." From the dude lying on his back at the Alafia Trail 1/2, regarding the trail condition of the muddy downhill I was about to run. Thanks, now could you roll to the side.
"There is no Try, either Do or Do Not Do." Yoda. Ok, little man, that sounds like you have a Do-Do philosophy. There is no try may work for keeping the Dark Force at bay and saving an empire, but oh-great-wrinkled-one, we're talking about running 100 Miles. Now drop and give me 20, Mr. Jed-Eye!
To me, From an aid station volunteer at Ancient Oaks 100-mile trail run, "The difference is, You could do what I'm doing, I could never do what you are doing!"
"Hey were you DFL at Western States? So was I!" Some dude named Steve that I met at Umstead. He was DFL in 2006, I was DFL in 09.
Becky talking about the need for training partners, "It takes a village to run a 100-miler." June's reply, "Yeah, a village Idiot!" Priceless June Bug, priceless!
“We are not in a hurry anymore.” Roger to his crew as he entered Camp 10 Bear for the first time in the Vermont 100, Ouch! Darn evil doctors!
"Road Marathons Suck!" Words of wisdom from Professor ACG. Listen to him, he knows of what he speaks!
"It's slippery." From the dude lying on his back at the Alafia Trail 1/2, regarding the trail condition of the muddy downhill I was about to run. Thanks, now could you roll to the side.
"There is no Try, either Do or Do Not Do." Yoda. Ok, little man, that sounds like you have a Do-Do philosophy. There is no try may work for keeping the Dark Force at bay and saving an empire, but oh-great-wrinkled-one, we're talking about running 100 Miles. Now drop and give me 20, Mr. Jed-Eye!
To me, From an aid station volunteer at Ancient Oaks 100-mile trail run, "The difference is, You could do what I'm doing, I could never do what you are doing!"
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7 comments:
My plan for speedwork is does not involve talking politics. Last night I got home from work late. Wednesday night I like to run 15 miles in about 2 hours. I started my treadmill run promptly at 6pm expecting to be done, showered and ready for dinner at 8:15. My lovely wife had other plans. She informed me that dinner would be at 7:45 no exceptions. Hey I know whats good for me! I still wanted the 15 miles so I did some quick calculations, set the damn machine at 9.0 MPH and there it is, instant speedwork! 1 hour and 40 minutes later I was done with 5 minutes to spare for a shower. Divorce avoidance successful.
That's scary stuff Roger. Fear, anger, whatever gets the adreneline going.
Yeah, Ange, Gina always told us never to discuss sex, politics or religion in public. Fast runners? Maybe. Slow learners? Definitely.
Er, I'd have to be talking about W or Tricky Dick Cheney to run that fast! (er, and it'd have to be downwind) (er, er, and it'd have to be downhill)
So that's why the long-run conversation is always about poop and obscure 80's movie trivia, oh, and poop.
Well, heck. If you moved out to this part of Pennsylvania and talked politics everyday, you might be fast enough to win Boston. That's not to say the locals aren't open minded, just that their minds are only open to the transmissions of Fox News.
If you keep talking politics while you run, you just might lose all that weight that you want to.
You'll never find this on the Jenny Craig plan!
Oh aint it so, aint it so! I'm telling you, I was moving last night, 14 minutes for two miles isn't that fast, unless it's at the end of an eight mile run, which this was. And of course the biggest weight benefit, I was too tourqed to drink beer with them afterward, that's about 500 calories I didn't have!
From now on, it's movie trivia and that other thing the prof mentioned, that's it!
(unless they start it again, you mess with the bull you get the horns, or in my case, more bull :)
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