{"id":9185,"date":"2012-11-29T11:23:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T11:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/29\/running-gain-no-pain\/"},"modified":"2012-11-29T11:23:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T11:23:25","slug":"running-gain-no-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/29\/running-gain-no-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Running: Gain, No Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"

No pain to speak of, leastways.  And I've been at it over 38 years.  Your mileage may vary, as does Malcolm Pollack's who, in his Pain, No Gain<\/a>, reports:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I used to run. I never liked it much, but I did it anyway. I was never fleet of foot, and I never ran very far  \u2014  two or three miles, usually, with the longest effort ever being only about six miles or so. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mileage is indeed the key.  Malcolm never ran far enough to experience what running is really about.  He didn't take the first step.  Arthur Lydiard<\/a>, Run to the Top<\/em> (2nd ed. Auckland: Minerva, 1967, p. 4):<\/span><\/p>\n

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The first step to enjoying running — and anyone will enjoy it if he takes that first step — is to achieve perfect fitness.  I don't mean just the ability to run half a mile once a week without collapsing.  I mean the ability to run great distances with ease at a steady speed.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That's one hell of a first step.  But the great coach is right: you will never enjoy running or understand
its satisfactions if you jog around the block for 20 minutes four times per week.   I find that only after one hour of running am I properly primed and stoked.  And then the real run begins.  Or as I recall Joe Henderson saying back in the '70s in a Runner's World<\/em> column: Run the first hour for your body, the second for yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don't move very fast these days.  I do the old man shuffle.  But I've got staying power.  Completed a marathon at age 60. Enjoyed the hell out of last week's 10 K Turkey Trot.  Surprisingly, the satisfactions of running are the same now as they were in fleeter days.<\/span><\/p>\n

To avoid injuries, limit your running to two or three days a week and crosstrain on the other days.  I lift weights, ride bikes, use elliptical trainers, hike, swim, and do water aerobics.  <\/span><\/p>\n

And don't forget: LSD (long slow distance) is better than POT (plenty of tempo). <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No pain to speak of, leastways.  And I've been at it over 38 years.  Your mileage may vary, as does Malcolm Pollack's who, in his Pain, No Gain, reports: I used to run. I never liked it much, but I did it anyway. I was never fleet of foot, and I never ran very far  … Continue reading “Running: Gain, No Pain”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}