12.19 5.1 miles AM treadmill (2% incline). 5 miles late AM treadmill (2% incline) 6.5 miles PM in 42:15 (6:30 pace)--hard effort because I am up in Meredith--lots of hills.
16.6 miles for the day.
12.20 14 miles in 101 minutes. Lots of hills.
12.21 7 mile progression run on treadmill (2% incline) from 8 minute pace down to 5:18 pace on the treadmill. 47:35.
12.22 25 miles in mountains of Meredith (3:03:15) 7:19 pace. I threw some faster miles in there every once in a while.
12.23 6 miles am treadmill easy. 10.4 miles outside in 85 minutes. 16.4 miles total.
12.24 5 miles easy AM. 5 miles on treadmill early PM with 4 minutes easy and then one minute hard at progressively faster speeds. 10.7, 10.9, 11.1, 11.3, 11.5, 11.8, 12.0. 34:56. 4.25 miles easy late PM on treadmill. 14.5 miles total.
12.25 9.2 miles easy outside during a beautiful light snowfall very early AM in 73 minutes. 6.3 miles PM in 42:37. 15.5 miles for the week.
109 miles for the week--all-time record!
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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