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Subject: Six
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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:00:03 -0000
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URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/09.html#six
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Date: 2002-10-09T19:54:41-05:00
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Actually, 5.6. I clocked my “long loop” today and discovered that
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the run I thought was 6 miles is actually only 5.6. And the “short
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loop” I thought was 5 miles is actually only 4.6. I have an off-by-0.4
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bug. This is very upsetting. I've lost 0.4 miles somewhere. If anyone finds
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them, can you please let me know? Thank you.
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I ran 9 miles last week, and 10 so far this week, even taking into account my
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off-by-0.4 bug. I fear I am turning into a runner. My father and I made fun of
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runners when I was growing up. He used to say that you never saw a runner
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smiling. We'd drive by runners, point at them, and say, “Look, another
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runner... not smiling!” This weighed heavily on my psyche in my formative
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years. So it is with some measure of shame that I admit that I am becoming a
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runner.
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Becoming a runner is actually not that difficult. Not surprisingly, it involves
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running. There's other stuff, too, eventually, but running is the important
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part. If you can run a mile, run a mile. If you can only run around the block,
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run around the block. Tomorrow you'll run around the block, and the next day
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you'll find you can run around two blocks. And next week you'll find you can
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run a mile. Then one day you'll run a mile, then stop to catch your breath,
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then get invigorated and run another mile.
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And then you're a runner. That's it, really. It's not complicated. You run, and
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you run, and you run. And one day, you discover that shoes are important, and
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that the old sneakers you threw on the first time you tried out this running
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thing out aren't actually very good for running. So you go buy new shoes, and
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you run, and you run, and you run. And later, you discover that stretching is
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important too, so you stretch and run, and stretch and run, and stretch and
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run.
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There's other stuff too, but it doesn't really matter until you're already a
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runner. You learn about differences in running surfaces. And how many miles you
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should really put on one pair of shoes. And when in the day you should run to
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maximize calorie burning. And how to train for a marathon, and so forth. Don't
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worry about any of that now. Just run. Running is key. Otherwise you're just
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another fat schmuck lying on the couch reading _Runner's World_.
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