American - Athlete | June 3, 1943 -
They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions.
Joe Henderson
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This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by running with the watch instead of against it or away from it.
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Time means a great deal to every runner. It means everything to me, because most days miles don't count; only minutes do.
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When running to fill a time quota, however, the reverse happens. You can't make that time pass any faster by rushing, so you settle into a pace that feels right to you at the moment. Each minute above a quota is a little victory.
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A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.
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Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do.
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His name, Buzz, fits. He can buzz along at 40 miles an hour when his genetic memory moves him.
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I've lived nearby since 1981 and probably have averaged one run a week there. That's more than 1,000 repetitions, and I have yet to tire of this course.
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Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.
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Ours is a life of constant reruns. We're always circling back to where we'd we started, then starting all over again. Even if we don't run extra laps that day, we surely will come back for more of the same another day soon.
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Where did you run today? Now there's a question you don't often hear.
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Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.
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