Thanks to all of you who trusted me with your training this summer: Megan, Brianna (who was here today for an easy half-hour), Jiaqi, Asilia, Vadim, Kate, Becky, Jie, Nathaniel and Guangyu.
This class has ended, but that doesn’t mean I will suddenly forget you. I hope to see some of you in a future class (I teach the combined 5K/10K during the regular school year), in a Sunday training group (which trains year-round for half-marathons and marathons), at a race (held almost every weekend locally), or on the streets and trails of town (always available). Feel free to contact me anytime with running questions or concerns.
LESSON 20: WINNING WAYS
A great beauty of running is that it gives everyone a chance to win. Winning isn’t automatic; you still have to work for success and risk failure. But unlike other sports there’s no need to beat an arbitrary standard (such as “par” or an opponent’s score). You measure yourself against your personal records. To the runner, a “PR” does not stand for public relations or an island in the Caribbean. It means “personal record,” and this PR may represent the greatest advance in the history of this sport. The invention of the digital stopwatch worn on the wrist turned everyone into a potential winner. Here was a personal and yet objective way to measure success and progress. It didn’t depend upon beating anyone, but only upon how the new numbers on the watch compared with the old ones.
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