The Peripatetic Runner
[\ˌper-ə-pə-ˈte-tik\]: wandering from place to place
"Long-Distance Running Is the Only Sport That's Not Fundamentally Absurd"
Those who have read Born to Run are unlikely to encounter much “new” information; nevertheless, the article proves to be a good read.
"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle…
When the sun comes up, you’d better be running."
~ Abe Gubegna, as quoted in Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run.
Runner meets Logician
When two runners approach one another, the increase in their rate of pace is directly proportional to the decrease in distance between them. When the value reaches 0, the decrease in rate of pace is directly proportional to the squared value of the decrease in distance.
"What was the secret, they wanted to know; in a thousand different ways they wanted to know The Secret. And not one of them was prepared, truly prepared to believe that it had not so much to do with chemicals and zippy mental tricks as with that most unprofound and sometimes heart-rending process of removing, molecule by molecule, the very tough rubber that comprised the bottoms of his training shoes. The Trial of Miles, Miles of Trials. How could they be expected to understand that?"
~ Once A Runner, by John L. Parker Jr.
Who?
The random musings of an everyday runner whose atypical facination with everything to do with running compels him to write.
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