Thursday, January 29, 2009

Hard as a Diamond

I can't help but feel inadequate in the lack of miles i am putting in. I ran 15 on friday and felt great but i can't help feeling like i should be doing this every day, ya know. I will work it out i guess.
OK in other news I got a copy of "Once a Runner" by John L. Parker. I was able to get reprint that isn't suppose to be released until April on ebay..........wooo hoooo!! The book is incredible so far and i realize i don't have exscuses for painfull days, or fat days, or shin splint days, or tired days, or any other excuse i can muster up. Today i am going to run until i have to stop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eXqAWjJ_dE

"Quenton Cassidy knew what the mystic-runners, the joggers, the runner-poets, the Zen runners, and others of thier ilk were talking about. But he also knew that thier euphoric selves were generally nowhere to be seen on dark, rainy mornings. they primarily wanted to talk it, not do it. Cassidy very early on understood that a true runner ran even when he didn't feel like it, and raced when he was supposed to, without excuses and with nothing held back. He ran to win, would die in the process if necessary, and was unimpressed by those who disavowed such a base motivation."
John L. Parker, Jr.
"Once a Runner"

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