Total: 1 Hour
"If you are not being criticized, you are not doing much."
- Johan Bruyneel
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- Johan Bruyneel
"There is no such thing as exaggerated art. There is salvation only in extremes."
- Paul Gauguin
The first day we climbed 3000 vertical feet. Day two we put the hammer down and did another 5000. It started to hurt. Some people chase pain harder than others, consciously or subconsciously. Some use it to inflate their sense of self-importance. Others test their will by working through it. Each of us has a threshold someplace short of serious harm. Kevin's different. His definition of pain is more highly evolved than ours. He's willing to hurt himself permanently to get what he wants. In a conversation about calories, he told me that there is always something left to burn, "even if it's brain matter." Kevin is, without question, the best I've ever seen. From watching him, I learned to overcome myself.
- Mark Twight, elite alpinist in his book KISS OR KILL (Chapter: I Hurt, Therefore I Am)
The underlying suggestion posed by all resolutions is one of being in control, which I realize now, is not at all the case. I think we may train ourselves to be as adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.
- Mark Twight, elite alpinist in his book KISS OR KILL (Chapter: I Hurt, Therefore I Am)
Session #1 (7:04 a.m. - 7:38 a.m.) ~ 34 minutes [Trail Run - Steady State]
Was up all night having a Kinesiology (Biomechanics) Extravaganza, apart for an early evening nap. Rich and AV came by in the morning at 7:00 a.m. so I decided what better way to start... err... continue the day than to get a nice 5 mile Trail Run in. We ran at a good, strong pace and ran up the hills at about 85% - 95%. Had a real good chat during the run with Rich and he kept up with the pace like a lion... I was impressed. Great work, son.
Nap (3:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.) ~ 1 hour, 30 minutes
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