I went for a run yesterday, and\u00a0I felt that desire to crank it up again.\u00a0 \u00a0 I am about to enter a 100 miler for November, and start serious training for that.\u00a0 Kind of excited about it, after taking several months of rest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0When I got home from my run, Tamara and my daughter Emily were waiting for me to help her complete a homework assignment of measuring how far one of\u00a0her parents could run in 10 seconds.\u00a0 In her PE class, they had to see how far\u00a0THEY could run in 10 seconds.\u00a0 So,\u00a0Emily\u00a0marks a starting line and sends me off, Tamara monitors the clock, \u00a0Ashley\u00a0is down the street to mark the finish spot.\u00a0 I’m feeling like an idiot trying to sprint\u00a0on legs that don’t do a lot of sprinting\u00a0these days.\u00a0\u00a0While they are screaming wildly\u00a0for me to go faster like it’s a real race,\u00a0 the neighbors are sitting out on their property with friends, \u00a0drinking beer and wondering what the heck the Harper’s are up to now.<\/p>\n
The measurement was 282 feet and some inches.\u00a0\u00a0Not even a\u00a0day later, and I wish I could do\u00a0it again, I could go much farther with a better start and quicker accelaration.\u00a0 I slow getting to top speed.\u00a0 Funny how I can break that 10 seconds into 3-4 different pieces just like you might a long distance run.\u00a0 Forget it, I think I’m too old to start training for the 100 yard dash!<\/p>\n
I came inside the house gasping for air.\u00a0 WOW, that was hard!\u00a0 I cannot believe how long it took me to recover from that effort of 10 seconds of 100% effort.\u00a0 It’s very different to run like that, to give 100% effort from a complete rest, \u00a0than it is\u00a0to do the long aerobic distances, or even to sprint to the finish of something like a triathlon run, or\u00a05 or 10k.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It was fun, and Emily was impressed that I went far.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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