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"Nice thoughts. I think that somehow RUNNING brings to our soul all good things and help us to get rid of selfishness and greed. As it is mentioned in the book "Born to run"... it makes us better people."

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"I love remembering the statement in the book: "We don't stop running because we get old; we get old because we stop running", and even better is shortening it to a positive message: We are young because we run! Congratulations on your…"

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Whitney Stewart commented on Melinda's blog post Black toenail, check.

"weeel, I've never subscribed to the idea that it's just part of training... from any friends who got them consistently, they always ended up realizing that there was SOMEthing they could change or do to prevent them (especially doing a…"

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How many years have you been running?: 10

What is your goal race for the year?: Ironman Canada 2012

What is your greatest running accomplishment?: Half Marathon 2:01

What is your "ultimate dream" running goal?: Winning IM age groups because there's no other 90 year olds

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Really, I can get get faster and better

Posted on October 13, 2011 at 2:50pm 2 Comments 3 Likes

I have two thoughts for today.

1) Yay, I seem to be getting faster. Meaning that I run at a comfortable pace, and my heart rate is lower than I expect. I have always fought to run slow enough... seemed like I could hardly do anything faster than a woggle before my heart rate was in the working-too-hard-therefore-going-to-bonk zone. Sometimes it feels like that's all I'll ever be able to do; I guess I had enough trust though, (after all how many bizillions of people before me have…

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One Track Mind

Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes

I realized recently that my hunny and I have reached the “training tunnel vision” phase of the training lifestyle; having been in and out of focused training before I saw in myself the tendency to talk of nothing but training, and most often MY training (I have always acknowledged that endurance training can appear self-possessed). I chalk it up to the time factor… since we spend up to 40% of our week at work, nearly that much in sleep if we’re…

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