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From slug to bus: is this an improvement?

Posted by simon on 3/6/2007 on simon's blog

I have an improvement to report: for the last few weeks I have been running like a slug. Now I am running like a bus. Slow, noisy, makes frequent stops, but always gets to the end of the route.

My heavy breathing on the trail today caused great alarm in the colony of prairie dogs, normally so blase about runners that they won't move even if you're about to tread on them. It also frightened the bejesus out of two young women who didn't hear me until I was almost on top of them, if you'll excuse the phrase.

I caught them in the dying moments of a "fast surge". I am practising for Thursday morning, when I have rashly agreed to meet Patty to restart our once-a-week tempo (for me) and easy-brisk (for her) runs. I say rashly, because the day after agreeing, I read this on Ken Stone's Master's News blog:

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