So, it hasn't been raining every day, and I'm not running at all. I've been mulling over a change of schedule. When I began staying up late to do mathematics in the quiet, it got a little out of hand. My bedtime has shifted around between two and four in the morning. This does not allow any sort of wake-up run in the morning. Then, at the end of the school day, I nap instead of running, and I don't dare run at the beginning of the study hours. Bad cycle.
But this is "the year of the marathon." I have run two marathons before, both of them around 3:30. Not too impressive, but I knew nothing about marathoning. These were in '82 and '83. The 25K is another story. I ran the Old Kent River Bank Run between 1979 and 1984, my best time coming in under 1:40. This is what I am looking for. Never mind the fact that I'm older. I'm smarter and am invoking my own "future rule."
My "future rule" is based on the statistical data collected on runners over the past century. In one era, it is common for runners to come in at times which only the elite, if anybody could run in previous eras. It cannot be that our bodies are superior to those of only one hundred years ago. It must be the training. Therefore, I invoke "future training," that is, to find the things they will be doing in future eras and do them now. Barring injury, I should be able to at least get back what I had thirty years ago. As for the skeptics, I'll just prove what I say.
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