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Tarmac Meditations #59: Fool for Running

By | Monday, August 15, 2011 at 12:08 am | Leave a Comment

A runner’s journal details the daily ups and downs of keeping the faith with your feet.

Eugene, Oregon trackDecember 7, 2010.
Ran.

December 8, 2010.

Ran the track yesterday. Will run something else today. Perhaps I have become a running fool. Maybe just a fool for running and other stuff. Maybe I am just fooling myself. Maybe fools rush in, and maybe a fool and his money are soon parted…that is certainly true. Enough already. Lace ‘em up, mofo, and git after it. No fool like an old fool is what I say.

December 8, 2010 (Later)
I ran something else today. A little further (over the little Amazon Bridge footbridge) followed by lamp post/telephone pole intervals, cool down and a cuppajoe. Got some work done. Had a good meeting. Took a nap. Gonna give diet soda pop a good leaving-alone. Water, do your thing.

December 9, 2010
Michael is running again today. Now. Run Michael, run. Slowly. Daily. Do. Not. Eat. Like. A. Pig. Ernst van Aaken, a German sports doctor and athletic trainer, said that. He knew something about running and eating and the passage of time. If he had known about diet soda pop, he would have added an additional prohibitive clause. He did not, however, often speak in the third person when speaking of himself.

 

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I write and take pictures because it is my way of telling stories. I run because it reminds me, everyday, that I am here. I have no idea where the writing comes from.

What I do know is that I start with what I know and imagine the rest. In the end some of it is true and some of it is made up; memory plus time equals semi-fiction, others call it creative non fiction. And if the “I” in the piece has a different name than mine, it is fiction through and through.

My photography tells a story in a very different way. The pictures seem to come from who I was and what I care about. When the words are coming honestly and the pictures are sharp and knowing, the stories tell me who I am today.

I also write at Running Before Daylight and my photography can be seen at The Long Run Picture Company

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