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Taper Tantrum meets YouTube Obsession...

2/1/2012

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Phantom Injuries be Damned...

It has been a while since I was in a taper period saving up before a race.  Sadly, nothing much as really changed.  The Phantom Injury is still present, real, and a compelling reason for self doubt and fear.

From my first ultra at Mountain Mist 50K in 2010 where I had a tragic, "Get up from the office chair" knee injury, to the hip "injury" I sustained two days before flying to Seattle for my first hundred caused by that ever daunting walk up a flight of stairs to the bedroom.  It happens every time.  The mind is playing tricks on you.  Trying to make you believe you can't make it.  You WON'T make it.  It's your internal back of the mind saying, "Here's your excuse.  Use it.  Embrace it.  You can fail now."  

So today while sitting at my office plugging away and I lose all the feeling in my left leg, from the hip down I was mildly concerned.  Certainly since its never happened before.  Just kept going numb, tingly.  I asked a coworker if I was having a heart attack.  Knowing me and that 94% of all comments are filled with some level of humor and/or sarcasm it was blown off in a flurry of "That's what you get for running so much!" comments.  

I returned to my office to continue my heart attack.

Broken Ankle??!

In a continuation of our corporate fitness challenge at work we had to run a 1 mile trip around the neighborhood to test our standing heart rate recovery.  It is a simple test of determining how quickly your heart rate can come down in one minute following high intensity exercise.  The goal of sorts would be a drop of 40 beats per minute.  So wearing a heart rate monitor we took off to start the mile.  

I made it fifteen feet before I realized there was something amiss with my left foot. 

Apparently I shattered it somewhere and didn't realize it.

Holy shit what's wrong now?!

Why does my ankle feel like someone slammed a board off it?  I know, I'll just run faster.  

Fail.

Half ran the entire way.  Still an inexplicable "injury."  Doesn't hurt now.  Don't know what the heck happened...I can only blame voodoo mind tricks on Dustin Hoffman.

Have you seen Sphere?  I felt like at the end of the run I was going to get clobbered by a giant squid, and Dustin Hoffman was going to be standing at the finish line recording my time.  

Smirking.  

Smiling.  

He's making me think I'm hurt when I'm not.  He's playing with my mind.  

I'm going to win Dustin.  

I know it's not real.   
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Stay away from me Dustin Hoffman...

Live the Dream Guys

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Skurka in Alaska
http://andrewskurka.com/2012/how-i-make-a-living-as-an-adventurer/ People always say, "I wish I could do that" when they see someone else doing what they wish they could do for a living.  Whether its a professional baseball player, National Geographic photographer, musician, or a professional adventurer.  Andrew Skurka has gone out and done it and he's doing it now.  He's a professional adventurer.  I've been following Andrew for a couple years now as we're the same age and he's doing what I would LOVE to be doing.  To do what Skurka is doing takes a lot of sacrifice in life and some that I'm not willing to take.  So I'll remain happy doing what I'm doing and sit back and live a bit vicariously through him and the Anthony Culpeppers of the world as they take on these incredible journeys.  They've earned it.  It's not easy.  Just read the article Skurka wrote about how he does it (linked above.)


Back to Reality...Sort of...

In holding true to my original plan to keep this website/blog from being anything but what all the other runner's blogs are here's a continuation of my oddities and some that I found on the internet.  I have a soft spot for the beauty of a time lapse film, the process behind it, the music along with it.  So I always look for them on the internet and then I click on the "Related Video's" and then I enter the downward spiral into the internet Labyrinth.  Surprisingly not all are about running or ultrarunning or trail  running.  I think there are some you might really enjoy.  If not, well...it's my website so I can do what I want. :)

Patagonia - An Obsession Relived

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Hotel Explora Patagonia...really???
 I've been mildly obsessed with Patagonia for the last 5-6 years.  I had an opportunity in my life to make the leap and take my career in hotels to another country, single and with a chance to work abroad.  I searched exclusively at first in Patagonia/Argentina/Chile as I've just always been intrigued by the area, the culture, the people.  The movie "Motorcycle Diaries" didn't help much as I watched that over and over again with a 7' map of South America dominating my bedroom wall...constantly dreaming of the day I'd take the big move...

It never worked out that I would move to Patagonia.  I took a promotion a couple months later in Arizona, met my wife shortly thereafter and I'd not change a thing from what I have now.  Yet, I still have a picture of the Torres del Paine mountains overlooking Hotel Explora, my dream hotel in Patagonia, taped to my inside of my notebook I carry around all day at work.  I just keep re-taping it to new notebooks every year.  It's worn, battered, torn, and even faded.  I just can't let it go.  

One day.  I'll be there.   


Until then I settle for YouTube and Vimeo fixes of the area.  I'll have my own videos soon...

PATAGONIA - ARGENTINA - TIMELAPSES from Ignacio Leonardi on Vimeo.

Sh*T Ultrarunners Say

Shit Ultrarunners Say has been all over the internet this week.  It's pretty dang funny, I've watched it five times now and it just gets funnier.  Not sure how enjoyable if you don't run but just know watching it that...well....pretty much every one of those happens on a daily long run.  Great stuff! 

Yosemite Timelapse

Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo.

This must have taken FOREVER to complete.  It's just incredible.  Both in scope but the sheer beauty of Yosemite.  Wow.  

Get Up to Get Down Trailer

This guy has been all over the country thru hiking and certainly applies to the above mention of guys that just go out and do what they always dreamed of.  This video is a trailer to a longer movie he's working on about the Great Enchantment Trail, a 700 mile long trek through Arizona and up through New Mexico.  Starts in Phoenix and ends in New Mexico going through southern AZ and western NM.  Starts in the Superstition Wilderness as you can spot Weaver's Needle right off the bat!

Possibly my favorite video of ALL TIME

This video would have been totally different with another song but what a great choice!  It's so interesting to see the backgrounds in each shot, even if only for a second in the time lapse but the pauses...they really grab a hold of you, make you pause and really pay attention.  It's incredible really and the ending really takes a full grip on you, or at least it did me.  I love it.  Super creative.  

He has no legs.  Stop making Excuses.

Freedom from andy campbell on Vimeo.

More proof that nothing can stop you from doing what you always wanted to do.  Yes, sounds cliche, but in the world of, "I used to be able to do that when I was your age" and the excuses that come with everyday life it's always great to see people kicking that crap to the curb and going for it anyway.  

Creative Genius

The guy that made this video was 17.  Incredible.  

GoPro Amazingness

The GoPro has been around for a little while now so a lot of people know what they are.  Still though, many do not and always ask me what kind of camera I have.  So for those not familiar with this little piece of technological genius...here's their promotional video.  Which..is...amazing!

Alberta - It's like Alaska...but not another 2,000 miles north

File this under:  Yes Please!  Can you imagine what the running trails are like up there?!!!!!
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