All the world's a stage...

From Shakespeare's As You Like It. Quite frankly, I hated it. I had a English teacher in the 11th grade. She was into this crap (so I called it back then and slowly learning to appreciate literature, I SAID SLOWLY).

The class has to memorize the full passage! She exclaimed it was the greatest comparative analysis of a stage and life with the seven stages of a man's life: the infant, the schoolboy, the lover, the soldier, the justice, the pantaloon, and second childhood.

I recall I passed missing only four words. What does this have to do with anything? I have not heard or desired to hear that series of words since 1978, but lately, especially when I am alone lifting weights, doing yoga or whatever I do when drift off, it spins in my head, over and over.

I have recently worked my way through many lines and decided to write them down, just to see what I got right. Then I wanted to look it up to see if I was even close. So here is what I recalled and then the bold/italic are words I missed and words in "quotes" are words I incorrectly added:

All the world's a stage,
And all the men "are" and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like "as hot as a" furnace

That is about all I recalled with any accuracy. I guess i did not recall as much as I thought as I only made it to the lover!

What does that have to do with this blog or running. Absolutely nothing. But it does make me wonder why, as I get older, I have these recollections of decades ago. Recollections I have not even cared about nor really want to relive. Not sure why, but I can not help but repeat to myself often during a day...

I also was thinking, maybe it has to do with a mid-life crisis mental exercise the close to 50 year old mind plays on oneself. Made me recall the best mid-life crisis story I have ever heard. It goes:

A man who was married for over 25 years looks to his wife and said "honey, 25 years ago I lived in a cheap apartment, had a car that barely ran, slept on a sofa bed or a floor, watched a black and white 12 inch TV but every night I slept with a hot 25 year old blond! Now, I have a great house, two great cars, several bedroom with many nice beds, a 50 inch Plasma TV but I sleep with an average 50 year old women. So Honey, I think you are not keeping up with the rest of the things in my life."

The wife turned to exclaim, "go find the hot 25 year old blond and i will make sure you are living in a cheap apartment, may not even let you have the car, and the sofa bed would be the best you could wish for..."

Could be reminiscing is not a good thing after all? But ...

All the worlds a stage...

Carry on my friends - Carry on!

Terrible too's

I am felling a little better. I have been taking photo's of the scale each day this month. Man daily scale photo's tell so much. I bounced as much as 10 pounds from the high and low in the last 10 days with today being 6 pounds less than 10 days ago, but 4 pounds heavier then two days ago? Goofy stuff... Will see how it goes.

The heading is the long stated questions. Once you feel better, how much is to much. I was thinking I may concentrate on biking for the time being with a goal to run once I get a 100 mile bike ride completed... Yes at once. I have done several 25-50 rides over the past month, so i am well on the way. I have been doing everything I can think of and everything I have read for PF and it actually is feeling good, but still hurts a little. Maybe weight loss from biking may make a good overall start?

Many runners, especially people who are new to running, make the "terrible too's" mistake. They get so excited and enthused about their running that they do too much mileage, too fast, too soon. They mistakenly think that "more is better" when it comes to running. As a result, they often start to develop common overuse running injuries. Been there, done that... so what is too much. Some pro's say:

1) Be more conservative than you think you need to be with how often, how long, and how much you run, especially early on in your development. Increase your mileage gradually. Don't let your weekly mileage increase by more than 10% a week. So if I start at 520 feet, I should only increase it to 572 feet the next week and so on... That is 25 weeks to a mile. But then if my first run is 5 miles, then I should be able to do a 100 mile run in 6 months. Both are ridiculous in my mind, so does that void the 10% rule?

2) Pay attention to aches and pains. If a pain gets worse as you continue runs, that's a warning sign that you should stop your run. If this were true, I would never run. Hey, close to 50, what doesn't hurt? Good, does this mean i call in sick and stay in bed?

3) Take at least a day off... from what, everything or just running? I get so confused.

Main pint is I want to run, I am just a little scared to start as I am concerned I will not control my much... But I still do not how to control my much and may just do too much...

I am a little excited but at the same time will be a little of a loss the next three weekends. No tennis... Well not really as I am heading to Dallas Friday for a Officials meeting, then home for two weekends before I have five weekends in a row. Then we are a week before Christmas... Wow, where did 2010 go? As I get older, time seems to go faster...

I read something the other day and found it hard to believe, so I google it and it is real. Given that a fellow Blogger is going through this right now I did not know what to think about the shirt... Very mixed, but creative, that is for sure...

Time to call it a night. Viking have depressed me so I guess I should sleep well!

Carry on my friends...