Farr Out Running: May 2014

"All Disease Begins in the Gut." - Hippocrates
“I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” --F. Scott Fitzgerald
"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims." -- Buckminster Fuller
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” --Abraham Lincoln
“Money is Gold, and nothing else.” -- John Pierpoint Morgan
"Let thy food be thy medicine, let thy medicine but thy food." --Hippocrates
"Whether you think you can do a thing, or not, you are right." --Henry Ford
"The only disability in life is a bad attitude." --Scott Hamilton
“The unexamined life is not worth living. (alternate reading) The unexamined belief is not worth holding.” -- Socrates
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither." --Benjamin Franklin
"It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse." -- Ann Trason
"The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenty; but the thoughts of everyone who is hasty only to poverty." Proverbs 21:5
"The best social program is a good job," --Ronald Reagan
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children." ~Nelson Mandela

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Maya Angelou passed away yesterday. I would be remiss without mentioning at least one of her wonderful sentiments. So here's a good one...

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style." —MA

Monday, May 19, 2014

Great EBook for Marathon Training here, free

an excerpt...

"Breaking up your long runs One of the best ways to get in volume similar to that of a 20- or 22-miler, yet maintain a faster pace, is to break up your long run into two moderately fast long runs. For example, instead of running 22 miles on a Saturday, try running 10 miles Saturday at a steady pace and follow it up with a 16-miler Sunday, with the last few miles at or near marathon pace. You’ll carry the fatigue of Saturday’s run into Sunday, which will simulate the latter stages of the marathon. However, you won’t be so fatigued that you can’t run fast at the end of the 16-miler. In this plan, you’ve now run 26 miles for the weekend, as opposed to 22, and you’ve completed a good 60 percent of the run at or near marathon pace, compared to almost none during the 20-miler. That’s 60 percent more time teaching your body to burn fat at marathon pace as opposed to just slow and easy running."

ebook here