ponzi's revenge.
7 miles last night in shorts/short sleeves. spring in wisconsin i guess, snow and cold one day and then 65 and sunny a few days later. afterwards i decided to take advantage of the nice afternoon and do some cleaning in the garage with the brewer game on the radio. oliver helped by barking at pedestrians and trying to eat the mulch.
the boston marathon was yesterday and the conditions were less than optimal. the thing is with running conditions...everyone has to race in the them so it really isn't that big of a deal place wise. however, if your objective was to earn a qual time for the olympic trials you would be a little depressed i'd imagine. good thing i don't have to worry about that...
on my runs lately i've been thinking a lot about potential, ie, just how fast could i be in the marathon? i figure i've missed out on realizing my total potential just by not running consistantly over the past 10 years. but what if i am able to train for the next 3,4, 5 or more years...how fast could i go? it is a moot point because i don't even know if i can run sub 3, and i've only run 1 marathon in my days. just something to think about i guess.
at what point did life become so bad that people feel the need to shoot up other human beings? robin mirrored my sentiment last night when she said that things like this make her feel less like having children. this seems like a generational phenomenon to me. not that people haven't done this type of thing before columbine, but since 1999 it seems a lot more common. and the fact that a guy on student visa from another country did it means that it isn't just an american thing...it's cross cultural and that really scares me. could it be related to our dependance on cell phones, internet, television, etc? i never put much merit in that but maybe having communication be so easy and available can deepen the feelings of isolation if you don't have friends texting you every 20 seconds...
but what do i know?
happy tuesday.
the boston marathon was yesterday and the conditions were less than optimal. the thing is with running conditions...everyone has to race in the them so it really isn't that big of a deal place wise. however, if your objective was to earn a qual time for the olympic trials you would be a little depressed i'd imagine. good thing i don't have to worry about that...
on my runs lately i've been thinking a lot about potential, ie, just how fast could i be in the marathon? i figure i've missed out on realizing my total potential just by not running consistantly over the past 10 years. but what if i am able to train for the next 3,4, 5 or more years...how fast could i go? it is a moot point because i don't even know if i can run sub 3, and i've only run 1 marathon in my days. just something to think about i guess.
at what point did life become so bad that people feel the need to shoot up other human beings? robin mirrored my sentiment last night when she said that things like this make her feel less like having children. this seems like a generational phenomenon to me. not that people haven't done this type of thing before columbine, but since 1999 it seems a lot more common. and the fact that a guy on student visa from another country did it means that it isn't just an american thing...it's cross cultural and that really scares me. could it be related to our dependance on cell phones, internet, television, etc? i never put much merit in that but maybe having communication be so easy and available can deepen the feelings of isolation if you don't have friends texting you every 20 seconds...
but what do i know?
happy tuesday.
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i work with a lot of people from other countries that have been here 10, 15 years and still are more of where they came from then american...that is what makes this country interesting. even if this guy had fully assimilated to the american culture he still had the his developmental foundation rooted elsewhere. i guess that was my point.
regardless, it was a sad day.