3.19 13 miles outside along the ocean. I started out at 6:30 pace for the first 2 miles and then inadvertently got faster as I went along. Total time of 1:19:22 (6:06 pace). Last 3 miles in 17:07. Last 10 miles in 59:57.
3.20 15 miles along the ocean. 1:38:13 (6:32 pace)
3.21 18 miles along the ocean (1:52:29). First 3 miles in 19:32 and I just ended up going faster. First 6 in 38:55. First 9 in 57:50. 12 in 1:16:19. 15 in 1:34:45. 18 in 1:52:29. 6:15 pace. I felt fine.
3.22 14 miles outside--nice and easy this time--somewhere around 7:25 per mile.
3.23 11 miles outside nice and easy AM. 4.3 miles early PM. 3.7 miles late PM outside. 19 miles total.
3.24 4.1 miles outside in 30 minutes early AM. 1.3 miles jogging with my youngest son MID AM. 6.1 miles early PM (44:12) 4.5 miles early evening (30:25) 15 miles total.
3.25 8 miles early AM (59:17). 3 miles early PM (21 minutes) 5 miles late PM on treadmill. 16 miles total.
110 miles for the week. All-time record for a weekly total.
As a youth, I ran, yet I did not exist in a sense. 19 years passed. Today, I exist in one sense because I must run. Perhaps I run to escape the futility of my existence. Perhaps not. In either case, this blog, or whatever it is, will serve to chronicle my training as a runner, my development as a man, and ultimately my demise as a human, because all things pass, fade, retreat into the horizon--and while we run, as we run, the mirage that is the shimmering, glimmering future continues to assert itself just out of reach. And yet, as this picture up above connotes, it may still be beautiful. And so the question may be what is IT? What is it? What is IT?
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