Comments on: Slipping the Training In http://www.outsideallday.com/slipping-the-training-in/ We Have To Be Outside Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:35:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Marvin Sosna http://www.outsideallday.com/slipping-the-training-in/#comment-1705 Marvin Sosna Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:04:12 +0000 http://www.outsideallday.com/?p=1776#comment-1705 Back in "the day," I ran every morning before work to stay in shape for backpacking. It was less scientific, less engineered: shoes were just that -- shoes, not pontoons; sweatsuits were okay. One crazy Sunday I drove out to Newbury Park, CA, signed up, ran the Hidden Valley Half-Marathon. No training, no prep, no brains. I finished it, got the T-shirt, went home and told my wife I'd just run it. "Well, that's nice," she said. It was. I still have the shirt. Marvin Sosna Back in “the day,” I ran every morning before work to stay in shape for backpacking. It was less scientific, less engineered: shoes were just that — shoes, not pontoons; sweatsuits were okay. One crazy Sunday I drove out to Newbury Park, CA, signed up, ran the Hidden Valley Half-Marathon. No training, no prep, no brains. I finished it, got the T-shirt, went home and told my wife I’d just run it. “Well, that’s nice,” she said.

It was. I still have the shirt.

Marvin Sosna

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