Get thee behind me

Get thee behind me
Capital Hill Classic, 2009

Roger Bannister, 1954:

"Before now it would have been impossible for me to attempt to write about running, but now I can see a pattern of striving -- of success and failure -- which I hope will grow clearer."



Roger Bannister, after breaking the four-minute mile.



Monday, October 24, 2011

Music, Part II

   Okay, so I ran yesterday with music. It was a nice change.
   Since it had been some months, I wasn't sick of all the songs on my MP3. Still, and maybe it's just because I'm A.D.D., I find that when a song starts I get fired up a bit -- "Oh, I love this song!" but by the time it's two minuets in I'm thinking, "Okay, what's next?"
   Maybe what I need to do is start fresh, wipe off all the songs off the MP3 and start over with new ones. I'll see if I can make that happen.
   Meanwhile, I do think I run faster with music, and it does keep me moving. When I'm tired, I just think, "Finish out this song. Finish the next song. Just two more songs to go."
   And, of course, if the Tom Cruze-Jack Nicholson courtroom scene from A Few Good Men comes on, I'm fired up and yelling out: "You can't handle the truth." So there's that...

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