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    The process is the goal.

    Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny

      Thanks, Richard. I had the pleasure, when at Rice, to run one mile of a two mile straights-and-curves workout with Sean Wade and Jon Warren (my coach at the time). We ran 4:40, "running the straights" and "jogging the curves". They went on for another mile, 9:00. The next summer, in Atlanta, Sean led the first 14 miles of the Olympic marathon.
        Holy crap. That article about PF is exactly what I ended up doing after trying about 9 billion different things and assimilating the ones that seemed to help. This is turning out to be a really good blog, thanks for posting it. Can't wait for todays 5k article and tomorrow's Ed Whitlock content.
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          This is turning out to be a really good blog, thanks for posting it. Can't wait for todays 5k article and tomorrow's Ed Whitlock content.
          The 5k article was great. "Because the 5K race is not just about endurance. And it's not just about speed. Or strength. It's about all those and more. It's about stride efficiency. And mental focus - resisting the urge to join the mini-mid-race battles that turn a 5K into a Fartlek session. And about confidence, about staying within your own race instead of panicking, instead of running someone else's race, some stranger's race, because yours suddenly doesn't seem good enough. But it's about one thing more than any other. And until a runner accepts this one thing, every race - and every training session leading up to the race - will be nothing more than a crapshoot. Listen: the single most important thing to understand about the 5K Race is that it is neither a distance nor a time - it is an effort. "
          The process is the goal.

          Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny

            Yeah that article was even better than I had hoped.
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              Nice interview with Greg Meyer, last American male to win the Boston Marathon. http://petemagill.blogspot.com/2009/03/back-in-day-greg-meyer.html
              The process is the goal.

              Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny

                The marathon destroys talent, doesn't create talent. Very, very few runners are pure marathoners. Only run them when you're really on top of your game, and when all your running is clicking! Make sure you stay competitive at the shorter distances. Don't use the excuse of the marathon to be less of a runner elsewhere. And I tell my kids to be aware of when you're running well - to remember what it feels like! That's the feeling you want to recreate over and over again.
                  http://petemagill.blogspot.com/2009/03/morning-read-journey-of-thousand-miles.html Should I be weirded out by the fact that my new favorite running blog is one for masters running.
                    http://petemagill.blogspot.com/2009/03/morning-read-journey-of-thousand-miles.html Should I be weirded out by the fact that my new favorite running blog is one for masters running.
                    You've become wise ahead of schedule.
                    The process is the goal.

                    Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny

                      You've become wise wizened ahead of schedule.
                      It's a fine line.
                        http://petemagill.blogspot.com/2009/03/morning-read-journey-of-thousand-miles.html Should I be weirded out by the fact that my new favorite running blog is one for masters running.
                        Never trust anyone over 40 is the new never trust anyone over 30.


                        What does Tunis make?

                          The marathon destroys talent, doesn't create talent. Very, very few runners are pure marathoners. Only run them when you're really on top of your game, and when all your running is clicking!
                          What's that mean, it destroys talent?

                          It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.

                            What's that mean, it destroys talent?
                            I read it to mean that in racing a marathon, every weakness is amplified far, far more than in, say, a 10k. Don't risk it unless you first have demonstrated that you can master shorter distances.
                            The process is the goal.

                            Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny

                              I think he's saying that successful marathoners build their career on long distance track, and run the marathon when they have peaked. Using 26.2 miles to express fitness built on the track. Successful "career marathoners" are very rare, very few elite marathon runners improve significantly in the long term.
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                                Never trust anyone over 40 is the new never trust anyone over 30.
                                I thought that by now they'd have revised it to something like "never trust anyone over 70."

                                What the hand dare seize the fire?

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