Mindfulness - Your Present Moment

Date: 17 Feb 1998 03:25:48 GMT
Organization: Int’l Association of Marathoners

HI Ozzie,
I posted this last week but my news reader doesn’t seem to get all messages at times and I’m left wondering who said what in the missing holes. A weight bearing muscle cannot stretch…just another morsel for thought. Ozzie, you really got me thinking about [...]

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The Week Before/The Month After
The Marathoner’s Body is 70% Water
Train yourself during the week before the marathon to continue to hydrate so your urine is clear. Remember it takes 3 grams of water to store one gram of glycogen. You can carboload but the folklore is that unless you continue to drink fluids, you can [...]

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A Marathoner’s Stream of Conscious
To me, it’s always been a time when I get to see how close my thinking and doing are in harmony. The marathon has continually afforded me the opportunity to see how long I can stay in the present. I get to see how I did on that day, in that [...]

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First Sunday In February , 1975
Las Vegas, elevation 4700′
Mile 25
First Marathon
Hit the wall at mile 11.
Three weeks before, I completed the Mission Bay Half Marathon. I knew nothing about marathoning except Tad Kostrubala, my mentor and author of Joy of Running, told me that I was ready to do a marathon. In retrospect, at the [...]

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To begin the journey of mindful running we will observe. In this journey it will be a path which allows you to observe yourself and others. It is a road which allows you to teach and be taught. It is a sojourn which will give you points of observation with which to play. The direction [...]

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In article <691nfd$4qr$1@newsd-163.iap.bryant.webtv.net>, Texcanuk@webtv.net (Debbie Kendrick) wrote:
> Most people think of getting blisters on their heals from running. I get
> them on my 2nd and 4th toes. Huge ones. I wear the socks that are
> supposed to prevent blisters and my shoes are big enough (one size
> bigger than my dress shoes). Any suggestion. Marathon [...]

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© Austin “Ozzie” Gontang, Ph.D.

> Steven Lavallee (lavallee@intergate.bc.ca) wrote:
> : Is it true that Galloway advocates walking breaks every mile of the
> : marathon? What’s next, lawn chair breaks served with lemonade and back
> : rubs.
> : Get with the program folks, the marathon is run, not walked. Did
> : Phidipides (sp?) stroll to Athens [...]

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© Austin “Ozzie” Gontang, Ph.D.
I have always known
that at last I would take this road,
but yesterday I didn’t know that
it would be today.

Unknown

In three words
I can sum up
everything I’ve
learned about life.
It goes on.

Robert Frost

George Sheehan, God bless his soles, knew from experience that we are all called to be athletes, poets, heroes, saints and [...]

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Inspired by Martha L. Clark who wrote to rec.running:
I am curious as to how a hill is defined. I ran a hill today, but it felt like a mountain!! Actually, I only made it halfway up, walked the rest of the way, then turned around and ran back down. The hill is .4 mile, with [...]

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Some reflections sparked by a post from Dru Jacobs in Boulder.
© 1997 Austin “Ozzie” Gontang, Ph.D.
I am continually amazed how we push the envelope of human possibility through the visions and dreams that pop into our minds.
I know that the dreamers and visionaries touched by/sparked by/moved by a story, are now in training for the [...]

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