Timbo, I thought all stud muffins had stamina!

Ummmm, only on the short haul...I'm not 18 years old any more ya know Tim

Well, Dark Horse, those are the comments you want to hear! Good job, and I bet you'll really enjoy that class. Carolyn, ready to rock and roll! Good luck on your race, 10ks are a good test I think. I little more work than a 5k but not the commitment of a half-marathon. Tselbs, I had that sort of run yesterday! I chalked it up to running at such a drastically different time of the day for me. I went out for what was supposed to be an "easy" run, but fast felt easy today for the most part. So much different than yesterday when the pace was slower but the effort so much harder... Ended up with sort of a progressive tempo pace run, avg pace was 7:58. I need to stay off that dirt bike path when I'm trying for easy. It just says "Go!" to me too much. Mile Splits: 8:10, 8:10, 8:07, 7:51, 7:34, and 7:47 for the last half mile. IRC with clouds and sun, 52F and no wind. Here's hoping these conditions hang around for two more weeks! (that's pushing it, though)

Dark Horse, the students made those comments to you??? Well I am impressed then. Great job and if you enjoy it, I am sure it will lead to better things. Wildchild, you are gonna rock that 10K!! Someday I want to run as fast as evanflein, if only for 3 miles! (and be able to call it an easy run!) Tim - I think endurance gets you through a marathon, and stamina gets you to the finish holding the same pace you started out with. Good luck with all the long runs and races this weekend! Good luck to Lyndenrunner! I might actually have a decent run in me tomorrow.

Here is what Ron Daws had to say in "The Self-Made Olympian"

I hope you all know why Spareribs is always quoting from this book. It is because he has it and we don't, and he wants to rub it in. This outstanding book has been out of print for decades, and if you try to buy it on the used or rare book market, you will have to fork over lots of cash--some booksellers charge hundreds of dollars for it. However, I just found the book online, at a small used bookshop in East Hoathly, Lewes, Sussex, England, the kind of place name that belongs in a P.G. Wodehouse book. They probably didn't know what they had. My total cost including shipping is only $25.87, which I think is equal to about 2 British pounds nowadays, or 1.5 euros, thanks to the steady decline in value of our currency, due to the U.S. treasury's printing press which George W. Bush keeps going night and day in the White House basement. Hey, why do we need any federal taxes? We can just print money to fund all federal obligations. Dubya may have stumbled on a financial panacea which eluded all the great minds that came before him: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln ... even FDR displayed a petty bourgeois concern for the possible negative impact of endless gargantuan federal budget deficits, but not our great leader C-Plus Augustus. Dark Horse

I hope you all know why Spareribs is always quoting from this book. It is because he has it and we don't, and he wants to rub it in. This outstanding book has been out of print for decades, and if you try to buy it on the used or rare book market, you will have to fork over lots of cash--some booksellers charge hundreds of dollars for it. However, I just found the book online, at a small used bookshop in East Hoathly, Lewes, Sussex, England, the kind of place name that belongs in a P.G. Wodehouse book. They probably didn't know what they had. My total cost including shipping is only $25.87, which I think is equal to about 2 British pounds nowadays, Dark Horse

You got yourself a steal. You know what I also have? A several page handwritten letter that he sent to me to help me train for Boston many years ago after I had come off an injury and didn't have a lot of time to prepare. No internet or email back then. Here is a guy who sits down in his home one night and decides to help someone he hardly knows, and writes this long and beautiful letter. His other book "Running Your Best" is clearer, has an index, and is better organized, but "The Self-Made Olympian" came from his heart and there are passages that still bring tears to my eyes. Spareribs

Horse, during my recuperation I am reading War and Peace. Mesmerized now by Tolstoy and his passion and love for his country and how he takes off on so many different issues. He makes a number of allusions to chess also, which you would enjoy. I know you have read this, but I am on page 900 of 1380 pages. I thought when I started I would never get through it, but am now at that point in the later stages of a book where you begin to feel sad because you know that soon the book will be finished. Over on Kick I posted a passage from the book from early on, but no one seems to be interested. Has anyone else read the book? I am going to slow down my reading now to make it last. Spareribs

Over on Kick I posted a passage from the book from early on, but no one seems to be interested. Has anyone else read the book? I am going to slow down my reading now to make it last. Spareribs

There are a few of those classics on my to-read list, Ribs, but sometimes the older style of wordy writing does make them a bit tedious to get through. I've made it through Moby Dick and Les Miserables, and might try some others. I recently reread Tale of Two Cities from a copy that belonged to my father when he read it in high school in the 1920s. I was surprised at how much came back to me, but was also reminded why I found it so hard to read when I was in the 10th or 11th grade! But at least I don't claim to know a book because I've "seen the movie" like some others here who won't be mentioned by name.