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Training Log Archive: BigWillyStyle

In the 7 days ending Dec 16, 2015:

activity # timemileskm+m
  Running3 2:07:02 17.22(7:23) 27.71(4:35) 182
  Orienteering1 1:33:28 10.61(8:49) 17.08(5:28) 22535c
  Strength1 28:00
  Total5 4:08:30 27.83 44.79 40735c

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Wednesday Dec 16, 2015 #

6 PM

Running warm up/down 16:03 [2] 2.1 mi (7:39 / mi) +30m 7:19 / mi

Running intervals 3:30 [4] 0.63 mi (5:33 / mi)

7 PM

Running 50:17 [3] 6.88 mi (7:19 / mi) +41m 7:11 / mi

Went to the track to do one of my faves the 5 by km (I like to think of this as the lazy man's 5k - "Don't like 5k's? Run 5 K's!") but didn't reckon on the track being iced over with the temp just above freezing. Figured I could do time-based intervals around the soccer field, which worked okay for one rep, then someone turned all the lights off. So then I left the track and wandered around Kirkland, trolling the owls.

historical comp

Many were appalled by the Know-Nothings. Abraham Lincoln expressed his own disgust with the political party in a private letter to Joshua Speed written August 24, 1855. Lincoln never publicly attacked the Know Nothings, whose votes he needed:

"I am not a Know-Nothing — that is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes and foreigners and Catholics.' When it comes to that I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty."

Sunday Dec 13, 2015 #

3 PM

Running 57:12 [3] 7.61 mi (7:31 / mi) +111m 7:11 / mi

Meandering through Bridle Trails with a loop through Northwest U. Legs fatigued and calves a little sore.

Saturday Dec 12, 2015 #

10 AM

Orienteering race 1:33:28 [3] ** 10.61 mi (8:49 / mi) +225m 8:16 / mi
35c

Street Scramble at the Market, or, Zen and the Art of Jaywalking. In order to excel, you must attune yourself to the rhythms of the concrete jungle - only then will you maximize what I like to call "street speed." What's street speed? Dodger had street speed. He who taps into his full street speed potential becomes greater than the sum of his physical and navigational parts and can best his more gifted rivals.

I have tried for years to clear this course sub-90 and still am yet to succeed; I may have hit the mark or come very close this time if not for a missing checkpoint at 35.

Route: 14 - 28 - 17 - 26 - 44 - 27 - 15 - 25 - 42 - 33 - 16 - 41 - 23 - 55 - 43 - 31 - 54 - 21 - 47 - 32 - 46 - 22 - 52 - 36 - 45 - 51 - 38 - 24 - 37 - 25 - 11 - 12 - 53 - 34 - 13

Thursday Dec 10, 2015 #

6 PM

Strength 28:00 [3]

As an amateur student of modern history and politics, it has been a surreal few weeks. In times of perceived crisis the greatest beneficiaries are always reactionary political movements that would be otherwise beyond the pale, but for a hundred years in the United States two-party dominance has emasculated the gamut of extremist movements which have menaced and sometimes toppled other Western democracies. We may be witnessing the first time in a century that the system struggles to contain one of the political flavors of the week. At the least, the very word "fascism" has never been a living thing in the American political vocabulary - until now, when all of a sudden it has become unavoidable. It will be fascinating to see how the Republican Party deals with its lunatic fringe turned lunatic voting bloc.

Thankfully, American democracy is almost certainly stronger than this challenge, but the idea of American exceptionalism is being proven a myth, as we see a not-insignificant segment of 21st-century White America shamefully abandon the most basic and sacred ideals of liberty, justice and equality in favor of hysterical xenophobia and mindless fear - just as not-insignificant segments of 20th-century Germans, Italians, Britons (Mosley's British Union of Fascists), Frenchmen (Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front) and others did (and are).

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