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[noahgibbs]

My bike's going into the shop tomorrow because it's making a funny noise. Could be worse, overall. I went back to boot camp today, beginning the first complete five-week session I'll have done in, oh, like a year and a half. I did most of the final two weeks of the previous session, though.

We did testing today. Apparently I can still run a mile and a half in 12:48, which is around 8.5 minutes a mile. I'm guessing that'll drop to 'round about what my sustained running rate used to be, about ten minutes a mile. I had some weird emotional baggage around that figure once, which would take some explaining. That's down to a weird small twitch now. Do you ever have those little emotional reactions that you want to drown like kittens?

I don't always like my competitive urges. Sometimes I wish they'd just go away and leave me alone. Of course, I'd hate it a lot more if they actually did.

Things are wedging in the back of my mind in a way that suggests that it's time to reevaluate my life goals again. That would explain a lot, looking back at the last few months. There are certain kinds of awkwardness that just don't usually happen to me. I replace them with other kinds of awkwardness :-)

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[wuttd.livejournal.com]

I've never drowned any kittens, and given the opportunity to do so, I'm not at all sure I could go through with it. Rationally, I know full well that kittens need to be fed and groomed and oppressively disciplined and thus I would probably be better off without them. Emotionally however, I think I would have some kind of odd attachments to those tiny balls of fur, and I'm not at all convinced that the rational side would win.

So yes, I guess I have had those emotional reaction that I've wanted to drown, exactly like kittens...

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Hehehehehe :-) Well put.

I was making a reference to a book which, on reflection, nobody my age but me has likely ever read. Dammit.

[wuttd.livejournal.com]

What book?

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

"John Dough and the Cherub" by L. Frank Baum. It's long out of print and is now part of the public domain, so you can find it on the 'net. It makes me sad that you can't buy a paper copy any more for any reasonable price, though.

[mh75.livejournal.com]

You ran 1.5 miles in 12.5 minutes? Thats pretty good. I don't understand why you expect your pace to increase, though.

I think that i can sustain about a 12 minute mile pace for a long time. I can run about a 9.5 minute mile pace for a while, but not as long. (Last night i did 12 minute mile for about 10 minutes, 10.5 minute mile for about 5, and 9.5 for about five. Today, sadly, i seem to have a shin splint in my left leg.)

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Sorry, the word "drop" in my post is poorly chosen. I mean that I'll slow down after running for a couple of miles until I'm doing about ten minutes per mile, as opposed to 8.5 minutes per mile.

I *do* expect to get faster over the coming weeks, but that's something else.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

And incidentally, I expect to get faster over the coming weeks because I've been away from serious running/exercise for about a year and a half. I did some kickboxing, but while that's leg-intensive it's definitely not the same as running. I'm hoping to get my 1.5-mile time back below 8 minutes per mile, which was at my peak of fitness. It'd also be good to get more endurance and keep my pace up when running more than a couple of miles, but I don't have any hard numerical goals for that.

[mh75.livejournal.com]

I have two goals with regard to running. The first is to be able to run 7 miles non-stop before May. (Thats for the road race that i want to do again in May.) I regularly do 2.9 now, and i try to increase that a little bit each time.
The second is to increase my pace somewhat. I'd be happy if i could end up with a 10min/mile pace. I don't know how long that will take, but my treadmill experiments (which i use to work on pace) are improving slowly.)

Running is very hard for me. I think i like it because it is hard.

Oh, btw, i frequently have emotions that i wish i could exorcise. (But perhaps not drown like kittens.)

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

This is neither here nor there, but remember that your running statistics will be better on the treadmill -- it's harder to run five miles than five "treadmill miles" in a given amount of time, even if the treadmill is properly calibrated.

But you probably knew that.