Category Archives: Training

Coming clean…

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Liar!!!

One of the key principles behind running naked for me is admitting when you’re wrong.

G pointed out to me that in my original e-mail to folks asking for donations, I said the ride in September was “200 miles”.  In reality, it is “170 miles”.  I had my numbers wrong originally (as opposed to “marketing inflation”).  I have corrected this in past posts and on my website, but I’m coming clean about it here.

 If you have donated money, and feel jipped, let me offer you the following options:

  1. You may withdraw the money (although I hope not).
  2. You may feel some consolation that while it’s only 170 miles, my ass will feel at least 85% of the ancipated pain, which is pretty good.
  3. You may insist that I add the 30 miles somewhere during that weekend.
  4. You may suggest alternate punishments in the blog comments 🙂

Let me know!

– Art

Help me raise over $5,000 to help people suffering from cancer

When it rains, it purrs

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I did my first group training run today.  It was a short run; 1 mile warm up, 1.8 mile race, 1 mile cool down.  I did the race in 14’20, which is an 8-minute mile pace.  I’m pretty happy with that — ya gotta start somewhere.  There were 3 people in the group today and I came in 2nd.

On the really cool side I’d gotten about a quarter mile into the race when the heaven’s opened and it started pouring rain. 

Not little drops; more like the Forest Service was dumping helicopters full of water on Central Park to put out a fire.

You could see people running for cover everywhere except for some runners.  They just started smiling and kept running.  And it was infectious.  I couldn’t stop grinning for the entire race.  I’m still smiling now. 

The rain didn’t stop the race, it just cooled me down and helped me run faster.  Now if I can just apply that philosophy to the other times when life rains all over me…

– Art Clarke
Help me raise $5,000 to help care for people with cancer!