Jesse Squire
@tracksuperfan
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Surly teenager wrangler, lapsed track writer, very average middle aged runner
Lakes Я Great
Joined March 2009
Toledo’s OG runner. Ran NCAA XC in 1951, and Boston every year in the 50s and 60s when participation was barely 200. Started a half marathon in 1968, now the 6th oldest in the USA. Still hands out finisher’s medals.
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In the last month of my mother’s life she expressed a wish to live long enough to vote against Trump. We asked her if she ever saw Weekend At Bernie’s.
As early voting begins in GA, Jimmy Carter achieved his goal to live long enough to vote for Kamala Harris.
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That face when you realize the 60th anniversary of Billy Mills’ gold medal falls on Indigenous Peoples Day
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4) Remember that only one person ever cares how fast you do a run or a race, and that’s yourself. You’re doing it for no other reason than to keep yourself fit, healthy, and happy. And I don’t have a finish line until they lower my crazy ass into the ground.
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3) Who are the people your age (or older) you’d like to emulate? Some friends in their 60s continue doing marathons & ultras while others’ bodies fail. Prince Phillip walked bolt upright down stairs w/o a handrail at age 98. Check out what they do/did.
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2) Figure out what motivates you. Fast times and serious racing don’t do it for me b/c I’m not even a never-was anymore. But I like team-oriented events and long runs in beautiful places. So that’s what I train for.
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A lot of great stuff in this thread. Some non-technical things to add from my perspective… 1) Be as relaxed and chill as an ultramarathoner. That doesn’t mean BE one, just learn to be LIKE one. Patient, relaxed, take things as they come.
As I prepare to turn 40 soon, my fitness goal is to be able to beat freshman in high school Steve... That's not an easy task... (I ran 4:21 in the mile as a freshman), but I'm getting there. How? Here's my old man training philosophy:
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I see the SVSU track and suddenly I’m Don Corleone saying “look what they did to my boy”
A look at the crowd as Trump takes the stage here in Saginaw, Michigan. (For a campaign that often points out when opponents’ venues don’t look full, this visual is striking)
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*the lighthouse-to-lighthouse run on Beaver Island two years ago on the most beautiful October day ever
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*crossing the Ambassador Bridge as the sun was rising and a thousand-foot lake freighter hit its horn directly beneath me. 4/ https://t.co/1CVyklJsQc
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*running Boston. I overtrained for it and had a horrible cold on race day, felt miserable, and ran 34 minutes slower than my qualifier. But I started in the second corral and it’s Boston! 3/
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*qualifying for Boston at the 2002 Columbus Marathon. Barely over a year earlier my longest run was 8 miles, and in that year I lost 45 pounds. 2/
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I feel like Twitter these days is about like shouting into the void, but I digress… My top 5 all-time running experiences, in chronological order *my name on the travel itinerary for the 1991 All-Ohio XC meet. That day this no-talent scrub became the Rudy of @BGSUXCTF. 1/
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“Henderson! Henderson has scored for Canada!” Happy Paul Henderson Day to all who celebrate
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Curious if they've cosidered renaming the "for you" tab the "gusher of rightwing horseshit and Elon groupies " tab
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Not sure if I can get through my current read, it’s climactic scene is more terrifying than anything Stephen King can come up with: a struggle to the death on a scuba dive in pitch-black 34F water 200 feet below the surface of Lake Superior. 🥶😱
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Saw one on our beer run tonight. The same neighborhood has a still operational DeLorean we occasionally see. A six-pack says the DeLorean will still be running longer than that hunk of junk.
Just saw a cybertruck for the first (I think) in person. This has to be a prank that he got people to buy this thing right?
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