A2K Running Club

Yeah.
Go watch a Marathon some time.
Stand at the 22 mile point.
The elite runners come by faster than you can get your iPhone to capture.
Someone yells "Here they come!" and too suddenly they are right in front of you



and gone..... .
They will be done by the time runners like me reach the Halfway point.

Stand there and watch for another three hours, the elites have already finished, toweled off, eaten a snack, changed and are in a taxi headed downtown for lunch, here in front of you are thousands of men and women who seem to running but oddly.....there is a similar cadence to the whole group. They are moving forward, but it is a measured movement, being spooned out, a little for this mile, a little for the next mile..... .

Later, maybe an hour later , more runners stream by, but they aren't running; they are double-timing. They are doing the same kind of woof-woof----woof-woof-pacing, trucking along the way civilians do when they are in a crosswalk and the light has already changed.

Only they have been doing it for about four and half hours and they are going to do it for about another hour.

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If someone asked you at that point if the first group and the last group were from the same species, I think you'd agree with me that there should be some testing done.

Joe(hmmmmm , seems like the same DNA, but still..... .)Nation

I have a friend in that group.

By the time I realize he's approaching and I should be cheering him on and remembered what his name is (those running pants and shorts can be mmmm distracting) he's ..... oh where'd he go

The reason you get calf cramps is that the intelligence of your other half is insisting that you stop aggravating it with the notions in your noddle. And there is a theory that aggravating it causes it to sulk.

A man of your age, moving in such exalted company as you do, should have learned by now to understand what your other half is saying. I am so good at it that I know what my calf muscles are thinking when I'm lying in bed shortly before my digestive system outvotes my calf muscles and forces me to stagger forth into the breakfast room.

I'll translate for you--they are saying "for ****'s sake RP- knock it off!! And remember that if you make us go too far we can make you pay. And if you use painkillers it means that the pharmaceutical company ran the last half of the distance and your artificial over-riding of our urgent signal will do us both no good in the long run.

And it is highly likely that other organs and tissue in your body are feeling the strain too and the calf-muscles are merely their spokespersons.

Light exercise is the thing. Lifting pints off the bar for example.

Try clean and jerking 46 stone. Try moving it.

We are going to keep running, but we promise to use our legs and not our backs when we lift up and carry your casket.

Joe(Right. On three. One....)Nation

southie-2-brighton 10k #6! tonight...

Trot Regie Trot!

I've run a couple of LA Marathons.
There is no feeling like running through neighborhood streets where people have set their stereo speakers on the front porch and blast music for the runners as they smile, wave and cheer you on.
What really touched my heart was the little kids standing along the curb with huge grins and little hands extended to slap you a high 5 as you run by. Man, that stuff really helped take the pain away.

I'll have you know Joe that I once ran the Three Peaks Walk in just short of 10 hours in the company of a guy who could walk 100 miles in 24 hours and another who was the English javelin champ. The 26 mile route.



You're talking about showing off your legs.

serious adrenalin rush, i'd imagine...

i get a kick out of otherwise apathetic BU students eagerly clearing a path for me on a crowded sidewalk...

1 hr 24 min
right knee wasn't too interested after about 7k; mostly walked the rest.
i think i'll do better in the fall/cooler temps/less humidity...

All the best to you.
I haven't run in a while, since I strapped on my Cliff Huxtable handyman tool belt and ended up dropping a 8' long 2x4 on my big toe

gonna be cool + wet -- 69°F, 90% chance of precip/t-storms...

It'll be a damp, squishy 5K. My 31st, good Lord.

Sorry I couldn't come. How did it go for you?

It was off-and-on rain at the Stride for Health, but my Clan was out in
force. The Lovely Bride power-walked, Rhys and I ran at Rhys's pace,
Hermione ran considerably faster, and Nigel went like a bat out of hell.

Because of the rain, they shortened the course to about two and a
quarter miles. Rhys ran the best I've ever seen him do. He never once
slowed to a walk and finished in 25:32. And, as a bonus, I took his
picture with Bruins forward Shawn Thornton.

There was a lot of food at the finish -- burgers and hot dogs, bananas,
watermelon, and oranges. Every time I looked around, Nigel was eating
something else. Ah, youth.

27:02 for RP, 48:02 for me.

We missed ya!

Good job! I missed you too.

I'm jealous, I was never that good. I did watch them on tv - saw an old friend running along, that was cool.

Were you around in '84?

Ouchie.

I've done similar, tripped on plywood and likely cracked my patella.

Carry on..