http://trainharder.com/blogs/robmackay Insights on life and ultrarunning Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:19:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been thinking about this for a few months and made the decision on my holidays that I am spending far too much time on the computer and not enough time addressing some of the priorities in my life. Computer time, in most cases if we are honest with ourselves, ... http://trainharder.com/blogs/robmackay/2008/08/25/my-last-post/ It's a hell of a lot easier to predict your finish time at a race than to run it. If you've never run the distance in the context of an actual race (i.e. you've run the distance in training but not with the timer running, people jostling for position, etc...), ... http://trainharder.com/blogs/robmackay/2008/08/20/ps-predictions/ I'm on holidays right now so training has been sparse/none BUT I'm looking forward to the JDF this Saturday as it could be a great training distance for future races. (I know there is talk about breaking the 'speed' record for the trail but I suspect we'd get a 'so what?' ... http://trainharder.com/blogs/robmackay/2008/08/20/jdf-trail-run/ On holidays starting today :-) http://trainharder.com/blogs/robmackay/2008/08/08/a-good-tired/ If my hunch is correct, you and I probably spend most of our day on email. Reading and responding to, for the most part, unimportant messages. 'Unimportant' defined as 'not critical to answer in the next 4 hours'. 'Critical' defined as 'I could really blow this apart if they don't get ... http://trainharder.com/blogs/robmackay/2008/08/07/e-mail-addiction/ Humans - if we are still here - will be looking back on the way we currently work and have a laugh. Thoreau wrote, "It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?" Spending 90% of our time 'going through the ... http://trainharder.com/blogs/robmackay/2008/08/05/in-200-years/ I started reading The Four Hour Work Week last night and honestly haven't put it down until now. Bright lights and Anthony Robbins style writing usually send me running so when I picked up the book at the library and looked at the cover, my eyes rolled. My eyes rolled back when ... http://trainharder.com/blogs/robmackay/2008/08/01/239/ Just goes on... JH and I chatted last night about what to do next. I'd like to look again at my training/nutrition and go underground for a while. The dreaded Haney2Harrison is an option still, so is the Great Walk but really, after doing 5 this year, the ultra season is coming to ... http://trainharder.com/blogs/robmackay/2008/07/29/life-after-white-river/ Rarely do I feel the need to give a blow-by-blow account of a race but this one was different for two reasons. First, I want to keep a record of the race for future training/planning and second, in retrospect, White River was the best race (single day ultra) that I ... http://trainharder.com/blogs/robmackay/2008/07/28/white-river-50-miler-the-story/ Full report to come shortly. The readers digest version - I hit 44km at 4 hours 30 minutes, feeling OK and on track for my own goal (that I didn't reveal on the blog), a 8:15 finish. The course was awesome and way more runnable than I expected. I did a ... http://trainharder.com/blogs/robmackay/2008/07/28/white-river-50-miler-2/