This is easily my favorite time of year. The leaves are changing. The air is brisk. My beloved college football team takes a giant dump on their home field. Ahh…the sites, sounds, and smells of fall. Save for a few fun runs, it also means the end of my racing season which, in turn, leads me to reflect.
I think I can sum up the 2009 running season with this tired cliché: Quality over quantity.
It was a very eventful year on the road for me. In January, I completed my first marathon. I still have an asterisk by it due to my IT band issues. It’s all very wonderful for a lot of you to say “hey, you finished” in the comments box (yes, I went back and checked), but the asterisk remains.
I PR’d in a few races, which is good. I did some speedwork over the summer, but not as consistently as I would've liked. For some reason on race day, though, I had a fire under my ass. Yay me.
I always wanted to run a relay and I did that and plan to do it again next year.
So what’s on tap for 2010 you all ask? I don’t rightly know just now. Should I work on speed and, thusly, new PRs? Should I set “more races” as a goal? I’ve got some ideas rattling around in my head like that ball bearing they use in spray paint cans.
As for ROATM, I’ve noticed that, as my training goes, so goes the blog. Since I’m not in any sort of training, who knows what you all will get from me? Maybe I could write about how cold it is or why it sucks to run on a treadmill. Been there. Done that. I’m not calling this a blog hiatus, per se, and I’m not leaving. Been there, done that, too. Maybe we'll just call it "sporadic inspiration". Yeah, I like that.
I leave you with a link about blogging. It’s a pretty interesting take on the medium. There are a lot of big words. Even I had to look some up, but I highly recommend it if you want to look like you’re doing research at work (translation: no pictures) or you have 8 hours of Parent-Teacher conference to kill.
Andrew Sullivan, Why I Blog, The Atlantic, November 2008
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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9 comments:
Hope you'll still pop back in from time to time. I can't imagine being stuck reading just Vanilla and Nitmos when it's slow at work.
If birds fly South for the Winter, perhaps you could run South for the winter. Surely your students would benefit from the virtual classroom!
perhaps you could just ramble on about the ups and DOWNS of Nebraska football. Hey, on the plus side, if they follow K-State's lead they'll kick the piss out of their next opponent.
So, you're calling it a year in October? I don't know how they do things in Nebraska, but in the rest of the country, we go by a 12 month calendar.
Quitter. I concur with Jess; there's only so much Nitmos, Vanilla, Viper & Jamoosh I can take. I need my daily dose of crap from you too!!! :)
Enjoy the break and make sure to pop in from time to time and let us know you haven't come down with the swine flu or something...
You can't take a break, I just got here.
wait a second, are you breaking up wiht me? are you trying to break up with me? how dare you!!!
congrats on finishing your first marathon (* or no *), new PRs, and what sounds like a great running year.
Could be worse, your * could be like Barry Bonds' and be for performance enhancement. Your * is for something that slowed you down.
Hopefully the spray paint bearing doesn't knock something loose. Maybe you should try show shoe running?
Ditto 2nd Jess' comment.
Having said that, my posting is TOTALLY going to be sporadic for the rest of the year so I guess I can't give you too much sh*t for it. Eh, to hell with it, I will anyway.
Slacker!
You missed me, didn't you? :)
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