ran 2 miles again this morning. actually slightly more than 2, because i like nice, round numbers. what, that doesn't make sense, you say? isn't 2 a rounder number than slightly more than 2?
indeed it is. but running to 60th street is more satisfying to my sense of roundness than running to 59th street, regardless of the distance. it's somewhat ambiguous, though, because 59th street is the tippy top of woodland park (its western edge), so there's a sort of roundness in that, too, the completeness of running to the edge of the park and back. and really, i don't know the exact distance anyway. i mean shit, i measured it on my seattle map with a band-aid "blister relief" wrapper that is slightly longer than the 1-mile scale marker on the map.
now you know the secret reason why i don't wear a running watch. it's way too tempting to run further than i ought, just to make the time come out to an even however-long. then there's the lap counter, with which you can time your mile (or kilometer, or some other unit of distance) splits. that just begs to be charted and tracked. hmm. i didn't think that was also the reason why i don't use a heart monitor, but maybe it is. at bottom, i simply don't like to let technology intrude so much on an experience that is really about me being completely in my body for a little while every day. gadgets have their place, but that place is not on my body during a run. and ferfuckssake, i'm not some world class athlete who's in it for the wins.
indeed it is. but running to 60th street is more satisfying to my sense of roundness than running to 59th street, regardless of the distance. it's somewhat ambiguous, though, because 59th street is the tippy top of woodland park (its western edge), so there's a sort of roundness in that, too, the completeness of running to the edge of the park and back. and really, i don't know the exact distance anyway. i mean shit, i measured it on my seattle map with a band-aid "blister relief" wrapper that is slightly longer than the 1-mile scale marker on the map.
now you know the secret reason why i don't wear a running watch. it's way too tempting to run further than i ought, just to make the time come out to an even however-long. then there's the lap counter, with which you can time your mile (or kilometer, or some other unit of distance) splits. that just begs to be charted and tracked. hmm. i didn't think that was also the reason why i don't use a heart monitor, but maybe it is. at bottom, i simply don't like to let technology intrude so much on an experience that is really about me being completely in my body for a little while every day. gadgets have their place, but that place is not on my body during a run. and ferfuckssake, i'm not some world class athlete who's in it for the wins.