The 8 mile Marathon

I am wordless today. I have nothing to write about. I wrote about Harry yesterday and he has been on my mind all day. What do we do with our population of cast away citizens. When I have children I do not want them to be in jeopardy because this man and other's like him are angry and have nothing and can probably never have anything ever again. What they did was unfair, brutal, but as a society isn't What we do to them equally brutally? Are there solutions? This has been all day since I jumped out of bed at 5:54 to avoid waking the wife who actually pushed me out of bed herself. I strapped on the ole skellie toes, spandex and running shorts and my 101st Airborne T-shirt and hit the road.

Somehow my phone reset my running ap, but replaced it with an even cooler one. This ap gives me training ideas.

Me being ultra ultra ultra I picked the marathon options and did the first suggested workout of four miles. My pace was slow so slow I won’t even mention it here. So slow I think I would have failed the Cooper test.

My goal one day is to day max the Cooper test. It really not too difficult, 12 minutes to run a set distance. In my age group of 30 to 39 I need to run more than 2700 meters, (or 1.6 miles in normal talk).

I did better than that in the army; well close to doing better than that anyway and 18. So i failed then also.

I have never been much of a runner. Much of a runner as in fast. I can run slow all day.

Except today.

1500 meters in 12 minutes is failing that like .93 of a mile.

As an excuse my shins were killing me. One would think that running barefoot it would be my feet, but it was my shins.

I had to stop and walk several times and stretch. I am not sure if I was just warmed up or what, but by the end I was running on the balls of my feet and I had no pain.

I am actually looking forward to trying the tactic out Saturday.

Of course my goal is to run a marathon and this map my run ap is actually having me run 8 miles next Thursday. I have already figured out a course , just need to outsource who will run it for me.

Any takers?