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I love your blog dude but do you really have to use all the curse words?

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The fuck you talking about man. This damned body of mine is just not holding up its side of the fucking equation. I feed it, nurture it, and abuse it and yet it never seems to come out stronger and faster. I ran 15:41 at Brookhaven this morning with a 3:00 first k which means that I ran really poorly the rest of the way. My heal, which went from being manageable to pretty fucking awful early this week, had a slight limiting effect but that really wasn't the problem, I just felt tight. I most peeved by the fact that I backed off the last week or so and never felt good and I put in alot of work in hopes of a good Brookhaven run. (end of tyrade)

Anyway, I move forward with some ideas for future summer training ideas. I may have made a mistake by trying to run high volume and high intensity work throughout the Oklahoma summer, but I still maintain that this is all an investment for the future (unless I have succeeded in rupturing my plantar) and I really know I'm fit although with 6 weeks to a marathon I would like to be injury free. The plan is pretty simple from here to CHicago- I'm going to run as much marathon specific stuff as I can while healing my foot. THe 5-10k pace shit is over and done with other than strides and alactic hills, so I think that in and of itself will eliminate a certain amount of stress to my psyche. I may enter the marathon distance fresher than I have yet from a reduced volume lead up which may be a blessing in diquise.

I end this rant with a nod to the good Dr. Hunter S. THompson's thinking in regards to running- that it is a noble task, full of qwirky minds and a showcase of amazingly gifted athletes and that sometimes it's better to have a green bottle of gin in your hand at 4am than be converging in the streets; which to my thinking merely means that today I clearly either overdid it beforehand or took myself way to seriously. In any case, I'm not quitting the sport, I'm not going to start partying hard, I just want to eliminate the times of fear and loathing like today. I have not to my knowledge been cursed by LONO so I think that there is a way to come out for the better on this one.

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Unknown said…
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/dining/27beer.html?pagewanted=2

Maybe Oklahoma is on to something...
September 1, 2008 at 8:24 AM
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