In the Arena...

..I explained the dog and monkey part, but not the 'arena' part, which refers to a speech former US president Teddy Roosevelt made about 100 yrs ago. It's actually one section of a much larger speech, but the single section that become famous has been appropriately termed the 'Man in the Arena':

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."



Nonetheless, another day of pseudo training til my leg gets better...

Tues night: 39 mins. Once again the first few mins were terrible, but the last 20 were quick, althouhg somehwat painful. I decided that AM runs were a waste until my legs becomes looser. When i get up in the morning it's too tight to run proerly

Wed: Good session 20 x 60 sec good-60 sec easy. Another K.I.S.S. (no not the band) classic around Bby Lake (figured at least run on flat and trails so less stress on my leg). It ended up turing into a nice session. I am in some discomfort the whole way, but I almost find that being forced to run a certain way is actually the way I should be running. Ran a loop in a smidgen over 36mins this way (which is now 11km as the old 10.5 km loop bridge is closed for construction) so pretty quick and also very consistent from the first to last post (10km 40m-50m per post).