This is your workout for Sunday, December 10, 2023.
Today is a long run.
I recall my long run at the end of the season in 1981.
I had placed 8th in the WCAC, with Gerhard taking 6th and our teammates going 9, 10, 11, 12.
It was a tough way to end the season. I had achilles problems for about a month but got it
together and just could not run like I wanted to.
The next week, we had the PAC-10/NCAA qualifier. While I led the team, it did not get
me near what I had hoped to do at the Regional.
On that Sunday, I went up to Summit Road and ran a rainy 15 miles by myself, thinking of the rain coming
down quietly in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Those solitary runs up in the hills were a chance for me to clear
all of the random thoughts in my head, and also get out into, what I would later realize but sensed then,
one of the most beautiful regions in the world.
Enjoy the run.
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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