Training update....

Ran 3.75 miles yesterday. Not much, but it was a speed-increase run, and I think I managed to hit my goal. Also, I reallyreally need new shoes, 'cause my left foot and ankle are screaming at me.

I also biked into work today. It felt good, but chilly. Whew. I think I made an interesting sight, with my 80's skater haircut, 70's pimpin' coat, and 60's-era bike. Good times, good times.

I'm going to have to go to Lady Foot Locker (oy) and get my pair of New Balance running shoes today if I plan to run after work. It wouldn't be so bad, but the people who work there are clueless. And sullen.

Here endeth the random training musings.

moonlit posted this...

It's from an Tom Paine interview with Chris Hedges, who is the author of the book War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning:

There is a kind of suspension of self-criticism, both as a nation and as a person that takes place in wartime. And that’s part of what removes the anxiety of normal daily living. We’re no longer required to make moral choice. Moral choice has been made for us by the state. And to question the decisions of the state is to be branded, not only a traitor, but to be pushed outside that kind of communal entity within a society that war always creates. And that’s a very difficult, lonely and painful experience.

So most people, not necessarily because they’re bad people in any way, but most people find it emotionally far more convenient, but also far more pleasurable just to go along. The problem is, under poor leadership, or wandering into a war where we shouldn’t be, we can find ourselves in heaps of trouble.

I just wanted to remember that, since that's especially how I feel in this country these days.