MY QUEST TO QUALIFY NOT JUST FOR THE OLYMPIC TRIALS BUT FOR THE 2016 OLYMPICS IN THE MARATHON (to do this I will need to halve my marathon time)
On I went, out of the wood, passing the man leading without knowing I was going to do so. Flip-flap, flip-flap, jog-trot, jog-trot, curnchslap-crunchslap, across the middle of a broad field again, rhythmically running in my greyhound effortless fashion, knowing I had won the race though it wasn't half over, won it if I wanted it, could go on for ten or fifteen or twenty miles if I had to and drop dead at the finish of it, which would be the same, in the end, as living an honest life like the governor wanted me to. -Alan Sillitoe, "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"
Saturday, June 19, 2010
The hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
I finished the Mount Washington Road Race. 6288 feet of elevation change over 7.6 miles in sunny, 80+ degree heat. It was hot, it was hard, I wasn't sure I could do it, then I did it.
Congratulations! You are so hardcore! Your spiffy green compression socks are so hip! You are the greatest!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! I'm impressed and can't wait to hear more about it!
ReplyDeleteYou are my hero of the week.
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