I've been tagged...why do you run etc.
Jeanne over at Not Born to Run tagged me, I’m a sucker for a pretty face.
Five questions for enquiring minds.
Q1. How would you describe your running 10 years ago?
Non-existent. However I was running 5-8kms, 2-3 times a week in 1993-1994. I was also really big into Volksmarching from 1990-1997, logging over 3000 kilometers.
Q2. What is your best and worst run/race experience?
My worst run/race experience was probably my first marathon, I went out way too fast, cramped up, and slogged my way for most of the last 10 miles. Since then I've learn to go home before it gets that bad.
I really can’t think of a best race experience…the feeling of accomplishment after finishing a strong run/race is always a “best experience”.
Q3. Why do you run?
I just have to use Jeanne’s answer „Silly question—so I can eat, of course!“
Q4. What is the best or worst piece of advice you've been given about running?
I think the best advice I have been given about running is to run my own race, don’t run to please anyone else.
The worst advice, probably “Du übertreibst!“, which translates to going overboard, or carrying to excess. I generally start hearing this when I have run more than 1 or 2 marathons in a year (e.g. in April or May ;-)
Q5. Tell us something surprising about yourself that not many people would know.
I consider my life so routine and normal that I can’t think of anything exciting for this question.
Comments
Jack - You should just make up something for Q5 like: I enjoy night time underwater splunking with no breathing devices or lights. Or... Sometimes when I'm running toward traffic I'll start moving toward the centerline of the road to force oncoming cars into the other lane... Or when I was 10 years old I placed third in the Olympic Skeet shooting competition for team USA.
OK, so you just don't want to lie to us. That's what I like about runners, for the most part I'd throw the keys to my car to 98% of them. If you've ever been burned by that 2% that are not honest and trustworthy it just leaves you stunned.
You're just to humble to tell us about one of your accomplishments or too private to share your individual quirks. I guess we will just need to go for a few runs with you if we want to get to know you better.
Run Happy!
Trail Scat
Posted by: Eric | June 6, 2008 6:04 PM
B/c of the way you answered #5, you made me read several posts down til I came across your diet and weight loss post, which would certainly be surprising and what most folks wouldn't know. (I have a similar, though not as dramatic story.) You didn't mention a part of some people's training diet--beer. You're in the right place if that is in your diet.
Posted by: Peter | June 7, 2008 6:18 PM
awww, that was nice!
wow, we have eerily similar answers! you've progressed a bit farther than I have in your running over the past 10 years, though. and I bet you have a secret life as a survival expert--or something exotic!
nice job!
Posted by: jeanne | June 8, 2008 1:07 AM