No running, tomorrow morning should be interesting though. I do have to get in my very first long run of the entire year. What a wonderful day though, I cleaned up around the house a bit, had a lovely lunch of leftovers. I applied \u00a0to some jobs and inquired to a few other places as to if they had any openings. We’ll see what happens from this round of inquiry.
\nSo it was a nice, easy day. Perhaps some breads were made, and a fantastic salad. Artichoke hearts are one of the true joys of the culinary world, just saying. I will be preparing some vegetarian stew this week, and I may be adding a little something to those meatless meatballs I put up the recipe for last week, or so. If I do I will update. I will also post up the stew recipe when I know it’s a big pot of awesomesauce. I test all my recipes I share, actually, everything I’ve shared here (not on my personal page) are my own recipes.
\nOther than all that mess, someone was talking today about how meaningless the half marathon splits are during a marathon, and even the 20 mile split (for the races that have that). They’re 100% right. The one thing I’ve learned with all these marathons is: There’s no way of knowing how it’s going to end until it’s over. When I hit mile 20 during Hartford, I was well ahead of any other marathon i’d ever run at the 20 mile mark, but I knew my job wasn’t done. To the uninitiated, or the unwise, 10 km (6.2 miles) after already having run 32 km (20 miles) does not seem like much, but that’s almost a full quarter of the race still left to go! So at that point, I told myself, “stay on pace, stay calm, you have a lot of race left to go.” I was right, and had I not contained myself, as excited as I was, I would have bonked at the end. I think, when it comes to marathons, that may be my greatest revelation, it’s a long race even when you’ve gone a long way, you still have that much more to go.
\nIn non-running news, today marked 15 years of a constant human presence in space. For the last 15 years, there has always been at least one human being inhabiting the International Space Station. Considering that just over 100 years ago we first took to the air in powered machines, that is quite a feat. We have to move forward from that. The more we can leave the old ways of thinking behind, the more we will be able to spread out and explore the new frontier. We have so much more to learn, and we need to stop getting in each other’s ways while trying to figure it out. Although I know the ISS is coming toward the end of its useful life, it still has plenty of life to go, much like that last 10 km of a marathon.
\nI suppose the glass is neither half empty, nor is it half full. As long as it is progressing and still being filled, you’re in the game, and have plenty of time left to get things done. With that being said, I will bid you to have fun, keep running and always remember, if Gil can run, then so can you!<\/p>\n