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YES!! What a good end to this week! Today was perfect! I rounded up a solid 4 guys from around campus and went hard on a track workout! It was me, Ethan, Dylan, and a newcomer Jason, who ran varsity at AF! What a day! We did 2 1200s at 5:25 pace with 2 and a half minutes of recovery inbetween reps and then we did 2 800s at 5:15 pace with a minute and a half of recovery! That killed! The second one especially had me beat! I died a little the last 75 meters, but then we did two 400s at 4:30-4:40 pace and killed it! My legs were on fire by the end and I was cramping up, but I never let myself just die off! Huge improvements in comparison to last week, and I'm grateful to be doing this thing with other people! Can't wait for some more races! This is what running has been missing!
One Good Thing: On the last 2 400s, I could feel my legs giving out, but I kept my head up and pushed through and it got me through to the end! It was just a matter of shutting off my mind and hanging in there!
One Bad Thing: I let myself go a little bit on the last 800!
To Improve: Keep the affirmations going and stay on the lead's heels!
Daily Song: Brain Damage by Pink Floyd
This one has been on my mind for quite some time now! The lyrics are somewhat haunting and obscure, and the chorus is so powerful that I couldn't get this one out of my mind! So, I did some research! In this song Roger Waters is writing about Syd Barret's mental incapabilities! He uses the line "The lunatic is on the grass," and says that the line was based off of the keep off of the grass signs you see in public! He wonders why anyone would have that beautiful grass there if it's not going to be used in anyway! I think this points out some interesting ideas about how quick society is when it comes to labeling social oddities as broken! The lyrics advance the idea that anyone who goes outside of societies norms are wrongfully judged to be disfunctional! I think this claim is somewhat derived off of the assumption that there is nothing that inherintely grounds the norms of society to be correct other than what society says! I'm somewhat weary of this assumption that's built into water's claim, but nonetheless, I would like to think that Rodger's claim about society being quick to judge social anomolies holds up as fairly true! The other line that really sticks out to me is one of the most notable lines of the song, "I'll see you on the dark side of the moon." I get chills everytime I hear it! Here, Water's says he was talking about being able to relate to Syd Barrett's issues! Waters said he thinks that most people have a darker impulse within them that we spend our lives trying to control for the bettering of ourselves and the society around us! I definitely agree with this idea, especially when considering that I would say there really is no such thing as an ideal human being in terms of mental capabilities! Everyone has their obscure personality differences and deviations from the average person when it comes to their patterns of thinking! Mental Ilness is moreso just the extreme deviation from the average individual when it comes to patterns of thought! Someone related water's idea here to Freud's idea of the unconcious mind! I thought this was an interesting connection! Anyway, i just realized that I wrote more about a great song than the amount that I'd written for my great workout hahaha! I thought it'd be fun to be able to start seeing what I was listening to at any given time down the road as well as what my thoughts were about the song! Also, I'll often look back at certain runs and I usually correlate those runs with the music I was listening to at the time, so I like being able to see what my running was like as well as what my playlist was like haha! I'll probably keep the Song of the day thing up for a little while! We'll see!
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