We’re still on for the tattoos, I just have to call about the artist/appointment/design/etc. As long as all works out, I am thinking Saturday evening-ish.
Daily Archive for October 15th, 2007
And now, the next installment of my reverse-engineering of How to run 50 marathons in 50 days.
In the Wired piece the Perfect Human it is written:
9. GET USED TO IT
If you’re going to explore the boundaries of human endurance, you’ll have to learn to adapt to more and more pain. To prepare for the searing heat of the Badwater race, Karnazes went on 30-mile jogs wearing a ski parka over a wool sweater. He trained himself to urinate while running. He got so he could go out and run a marathon on any given day – no mileage buildup or tapering required. This training made the extreme seem ordinary and made the impossible seem the next logical step. Eventually, when he grew accustomed to the pain, it stopped hurting. “There is magic in misery,” he says.
Yup. Get used to it. (Oh, and EWE!–not that I haven’t done that myself at least once before .) I should listen to my own advice and get over The Debacle .
But seriously, I have to give this one two thumbs up. As some of you know, The Lumpy used to study Aikido quite seriously. I’ve fallen from that path , but I’m alway reminded of one night on the way to the dojo …An older student came up to me on the way in, and was joking with me about being sore. And thusly resulted one of my axioms, quotes of Lumpy, rules to live buy, and it is summed up by “9. GET USED TO IT”:
The pain never really goes away. You just get used to it.
-The Lumpy
Today I had our training session at Lake Harriet, so that the girls could get an idea of what 3.1 miles is. It started to rain shortly after the halfway mark-it was great. I am so proud of our girls!!! They all ran well, didn’t walk a lot and pushed it at the end. One of their mothers told me afterwards that this is a total confidence booster for her daughter and I knew, once again, why I choose kids and school as my life career. I wish everyone could feel how humbling and exciting it is to know that you are helping a kid fulfill potential, or even just to have a tiny bit of influence. We have 3 main coaches and two women who come help out when they can, so these 3 girls are getting to see 5 happy, healthy women who love running and who are totally invested in the girls. She Runs Rocks. We’re going to take over the world. Don’t think we won’t.
