Only a certain generation will understand.




Never forget the generation that invented the 100 hour work week.

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So a hard effort on Thursday led to disaster on Sunday.  Didn't quite recover from that one in 3 days.  By mile 8, the ankle said fuggedaboudit & it was hello 12 minute miles.  At least got a video of some of it.



The smartest minds at work.


Frat houses today might be more about the housing than the prestige.  It was definitely about the prestige, 30 years ago.

As far as being the gathering place of the greatest minds, Stanford had appeal when Shot-Well & Lars came up to speak.  Otherwise, lions always found students not having much going on upstairs.  They come from very wealthy families who pay for everything, provide an investment in their 1st house & sometimes their 1st business.  They're able to take more risk at a young age without fear of running out of money or having to divert wealth to pay off debt.

From higher risk comes greater success, which feeds back into the place's reputation.


That was the toughest outing on this path.  When lions are on the 84, ankle pain is at its zenith & 2.75 miles remane, they remember that there is no home on the other side of the bridge, no bed, & no meal waiting as there was 40 years ago.  This run normally goes better.


2.5 months into ankle disaster, after 6 months last year of ankle disaster, lions don't seem to have to recovery speed they had 10 years ago.  It's no longer possible to go a full year without interruption.  It might be a problem with the sandals.  

Both paws have developed some amount of tendinitis in the same place, over the last 2 months.  It could be related to the lack of arch support in the sandals, but arch support is normally considered bad.




The leading theory is lubrication for preventing toe blisters has made the flexor digitorum longus work harder to stabilize the paw.  Huaraches don't have any of the lateral support that the upper in a shoe provides, so they require the toes to have more purchase.  The right paw has more lubrication than the left paw & the tentinitis has been more extreme on the right.

Since the tendinitis only becomes a problem at higher intensities, it might adapt over many years of the right training.  A lot of runners don't use lubrication & just let their toenails fall out.  The solution might be going back to shoes & toe socks at least for races.





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