This is from “Born to Run” by Christopher McDougall.
We monitored the results of the 2004 New York City Marathon and compared finishing times by age. What we found is that starting at age nineteen, runners get faster every year until they hit their peak at twenty-seven. After twenty seven, they start to decline.
So here’s the question — how old are you when you’re back to running the same speed you did at nineteen?
The answer: 64!
I just finished a book you’d love. It’s called “Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen” It’s by Christopher McDougall.
A good story and useful information—what more you could ask for. I couldn’t put it down.
My days of shelling out 700 dollars a hike for footwear are over.
These guys do 100 mile runs wearing homemade sandals. Their energy drink is chia seeds dissolved in water with lime and sugar added. And their energy food is pinole(roasted corn flour with sugar added, I believe). I think pinole is going to be the next corn pasta on the PCT.
Back in ’96 when the World Wide Web was new, my son and I thought it was the funniest thing to see ordinary people have web pages about their lives.
One Sunday afternoon we joked around about setting up a web page for my brother, an alcohol swilling sea urchin diver.
We laughed as we picked out a big background image that would be slow to load and yellow print that would be hard to see, as was custom in those days.
Then we set about to write a poem for the web page. This is that web page– Itcin’ for Urchin 1996 World Wide Web gold.
All winter there has been very little snow and even less sunshine. We are setting records for high temperatures. If there was a record for days without sunshine we would be setting that record too. The gloomy weather is getting me down. The road is a solid sheet of ice that is tedious to walk on so I put chains on all four tires and drive down to the mailbox.
I have to go out and scratch up little patches of snow to make water.
I went to Portland 3 weeks ago to welcome my granddaughter into the world. I’m hoping we will be hiking a long trail together when she is 11.
I have started a Grandma’s book of the month club for her. Well, more like books of the month since she is only 3 weeks old and so far I have sent 11 books. I’ve had a great time reading book reviews on Amazon and picking out books to send her.
My computer is still messed up, but now I have adjusted to life with a screwed up computer; which is too bad because it’s still under warranty. For me, I’d rather get ripped apart by a Grizzly then have to deal with customer service.
So that’s what’s up. I’m hoping life will improve soon or at least get more interesting.