Zen and the Art of Maintenance Running (TC10k Blog)
by rumon
It’s Saturday morning and, in a ritual being played out on roads, tracks and trails around the world, it’s workout day. For me though, today, nursing a phantom gimp knee (I’m not going to even get into it it’s so coincidentally random and infuriating), Saturday is a morning for spectating. And in this world of continuously streaming digital media, that means following the ≦ 140 character workout reports of various friends and strangers while trying to focus otherwise on a Saturday of photo editing. One that just caught my eye, from a runner habitually found near the pointy end of local road races, reflected that “3:01 [min/km] is definitely not half [marathon] pace anymore.” Though the less fleet-footed mortals amongst us (me definitely included) might come up a little short on sympathy, dreaming of a day when 3:01 for any kilometer was or would be a success, but there’s a valuable truth for all of us in this slowly slowing runner’s observation.
To run well and to run happily, each of us needs to run in the now. [...]