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| Mile 10 view from the Cass Street bridge over the Mississippi |
MILE 2 - (9:13) As usual, the hardest part is starting!...
MILE 3 - (9:26) Today definitely feels like a Monday...
MILE 4 - (9:39) I am blessed yet again with another gorgeous day in La Crosse...
MILE 5 - (9:52) At least 80% of what I do today will not matter ten years from now, this will. How's that for motivation?
MILE 6 - (10:05) Via Twitter: @cynicalife: @jeffreyjmiller1 Its a good day to run for no other reason than it's today. Enjoy the freedom of the road Jeff. (That is too good not to share)...
MILE 7 - (10:18) Yesterday turned out to be a confidence builder for me...
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| Mile 7 in the marsh |
MILE 9 - (10:44) When the event was cancelled, the police where I was at were quite insistent about not letting us pass. I have since learned, there were some runners at other places on the route who continued the course. I wish they would not have been so stern where I was at because I would have loved to finish their route...
MILE 10 - (10:57) I knew at the time that they were just doing there job and they did not want us stubborn ones to continue, so I turned to the south and ran another seventeen miles...
MILE 11 - (11:10) I just met up with another runner through Riverside Park. it was only for less than a mile or so, but the company gave me a well timed second wind. Thank you whoever you were!...
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| Mile 11 at Pettibone Park |
MILE 13 - (11:36) I am starting to think that this running might be getting me in pretty good shape!...
MILE 14 - (11:49) The other thing I learned from yesterday's heat was to set a simple goal of maintaining the same pace all day because I knew it was going to be near 90 degrees...
MILE 15 - (12:02) I used actual time for setting my goal. Each mile was to be completed by a set time, including bathroom breaks and water breaks...
MILE 16 - (12:30) Of course I may have the occasional longer break built in for stopping at a convenience store where I will need more time to refill bottles, wait in line, maybe even take a minute to eat a slice of four meat pizza!...(stuff I don't have to deal with at an event)...
MILE 17 - (12:43) Ultimately what this does is keep you moving...
MILE 18 - (12:56) It is the ultimate example of taking a large, overwhelming goal and breaking it into small do-able goals...
MILE 19 - (1:10) That just may be the point of all this. As a reminder that just about any goal, no matter how big, can be broken down into small and actually quite easy goals...
MILE 20 - (1:36) Picked up my running partner to keep me moving...
MILE 21 - (1:48) Time to pick up the pace just a little bit...
MILE 22 - (2:00) Picking up my 15 year old daughter after school is all the incentive I need to pick it up a notch...
MILE 23 - (2:12) It is warming up quite a bit, but nothing compared to yesterday!...
MILE 24 - (2:24) So much easier running with my son Kahle than by myself...
MILE 25 - (2:36) The wind has picked up considerably but we are holding our pace...
MILE 26 - (2:48) Time to dig in for this final mile...
Finished at 3 pm (exactly six hours, start to finish)
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2,947 MILES LOGGED SO FAR IN 2012
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