Going to the library to study can be quite distracting. I always get drawn to the magazines and articles section–quietly “wasting” my time reading.

I picked up a running magazine just for kicks. My relationship with jogging has been ambivalent–sometimes I hate it, sometimes I love it. Currently, Tippy and I are pretty consistent in running 3 miles everyday. In any case, the stories in these running magazines are crazy compared to our meager and slow jogging miles. There is this guy that is shooting to run 300 miles nonstop. That, is ridiculously far.

He continues to say that after running marathons for a while, he would actually run TO the marathon–sometimes over 100 miles, and then he runs the marathon. He’s also run 150 miles uphill from sea level to 8000 feet in 24 hours (and in 100 degree weather). I think I’d proud of myself I could do that for just one mile.

I’ve always concluded that it’s genetics that will stop me from running that far and fast. Professional runners have all their genes stacked in their favor–yielding bigger and stronger hearts and muscles.

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