Aussies & hand gestures

"Aussies & hand gestures
It worked OK for him, he won.
Cheers.
~ DonVon

"Yes,
He did."
~ Twittering

http://www.postcolonialweb.org/australia/carey/occarov.html

"Four bears,
When the clouds poured forth the rain

Calling their names ..."
~ Twittering

"Ah So Heartbreaking So That Was It
He's singing to the Pantheon, Or Alone
Keeping Up His Nerve On A Liferaft
Far cry from the joyous Architect
Michael told us of at the beginning ~;

But He gets answered Does He? Yes. The Angels
Spoke of signals, Do They Know? I see."

~ James Merrill,

Quoted message said:

From "Scripts for the Pageant,"

[p. 362-3]

"Foreword,
When the clouds poured forth the rain

Calling their names ...

Forbearance,
When the clouds poured forth the rain

Calling their names ...

Introduction,
When the clouds poured forth

The Rein
Calling their names

To come for supper at The Periodic Table
Of Contents."
~ Twittering

~ * Braving The Elements,
Brazenly engaving The Invitations."
~ Helen Vendler

"It is not for nothing that Merrill has read Herbert:

Herbert I think would recognize the punning names and formation of
these yearning and despairing winds, and Merrill's apricot, ripe and
shriveled at once, is not far from Herbert's heart: "Who would have
thought my shrivel'd heart/ Could have recover'd greennesse?"

t is hard to know where Merrill will go from here-whether he will set
himself to a Proustian remembering and give us more vignettes of the
past or whether some new convulsion of life will wreck the fine
equilibrium by which, in this book, the four racing winds are held and
viewed."

Helen Vendler teaches at Boston University and is the author of books
on Yeats and Wallace Stevens.

From
"In Nine Sleep Valley"

Geode, the troll's melon
Rind of crystals velvet smoke meat blue
Formed far away under fantastic
Pressures, then cloven in two
By the taciturn rock shop man, twins now forever

Will they hunger for each other
When one goes north and one goes east?

I expect minerals never do.
Enough for them was a feast
Of flaws, the molten start and glacial sleep,
The parting kiss.

Still face to face in half moonlight
Sparkling comes easy to the Gemini.

Centimeters deep yawns the abyss."
~ James Merrill

http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/04/specials/merrill-elements.html

"Formed far away under fantastic
Pressures, then cloven in two
By the taciturn rock,

That sassy Arctic Tern
Finally flew in ..."
~ Twittering

"Me,
Too!"
~ Twittering

"... He'll pace allright but then look carefully

at how, reaching the edge, he turns around...

.... that quick step

revolving on the one hind leg, bringing the other down just as
the swivel ends, then giving over all the weight

to one front paw, onto each pad distinctly it would

seem, then onto number four and he's
around headed the other way

again."

~ Jorie Graham,

Quoted message said:

From "The Sense of an Ending,"
From "Erosion"

"A great bubble of air broke the surface of the Bellinger and the
flying foxes came down close upon the river. When they were close
enough for his bad eyes to see, he thought they were like angels with
bat wings.

He saw it as a sign from God.

He shook his head, panicking in the face of eternity. He held the
doorknob as it came to be the ceiling of his world. The water rose.

Through the bursting gloom he saw a vision of his father's wise and
smiling face, peering in at him. He could see, dimly, the outside
world, the chair and benches of his father's study.

Shining fragments of aquarium glass fell like snow around him. And when
the long-awaited white fingers of water tapped and lapped on Oscar's
lips, he welcomed them in as he always had, with a scream, like a small
boy caught in the sheet-folds of a nightmare."

~ Peter Carey,

Quoted message said:

From "Oscar and Lucinda"

[431-432]

"All their emotions were fused together in this glass vision
in which they saw that which cannot be seen ~ wonder, joy,
the transparent traceries of angels dancing."

~ Peter Carey,

Quoted message said:

From "Oscar and Lucinda"

(324)

Donovan Rebbechi said:

Donny:

http://www.mensracing.com/image_view.php?p=91&s=photos/2005/nyrrteamchamps05/teamchamps
http://www.pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/running/images/club_champs_05.jpg

Craig Mottram:

http://www.nyrr.org/proracing/images/galleries05/fifthave12.jpg
http://www.nyrr.org/proracing/images/galleries05/fifthave13.jpg

It worked OK for him, he won (-;

Purely anectodal. Besides, your hand gesture looks more like this:
http://tinyurl.com/9fefy

Live long and prosper,
tkb

4:41 Donnie? What kind of jet fuel were you on? (Donnie ran a mile in
4:41 you all). Damn Donnie....damn. Congrats....Exciting & fun
race...sucked for me personally...I was disoriented & lost from the
start.

For the past year or two I've been trying to de-train from being a
"rabbit" so my whole mental frame has been fixed in coming out
controlled, steady...and foremost...establish a pace. Well that's
fine when you have some length of distance to run....but...you have to
really just run like of son-of-[censored] when it's 1 (mile) and done.

Did no training for this distance whatsoever nor do I "speed train". I
was totally unprepared and aware of "context" or having a sense of
judgement. I ran too reserved early and by the time I got my act
together, collected myself and realized I better turn on the jets and
[censored] some runners....I ran out of distance (the race was over).

I hit the 1/2 mark at 2:41 / 2:42 and said, "oh [censored]"...Donnie told me
to be here at 2:35 to do a 5:20....yikes!.....hahahaha. I found
myself running "tranquil" in a pack up to this point...and then
realized "to hell with this pack...let me bust away from these guys and
catch that faster pack ahead"...but hell..but then there was only 1/4
mile left in the race....I successfully separated myself from the
slower pack I was running with.....and caught the tail end of the
faster pack ahead of me and needed about 50-60 more feet ahead to
[censored] them (assuming I could...and I was pouring it on & had lots of
energy/juice left...but the damn race ended).

I ran a 5:23 (not particularly pleased and I got completely beat on the
mental side, the strategy side). The pack ahead of me was a group of 4
that ran a 5:18 - 5:22. I caught the tail end of this pack. The pack
I broke away from with 1/4 mile left....the first guy in that pack
finished 6 seconds behind me.

On the plus side, I ran this race 3 seconds faster at age 42 than I did
2 years ago at age 40. Hoo-ray! Nonetheless.....I could not believe
how fast the race "came & went". At the finish line...I felt "robbed
of distance" ...but that's my fault....allowing myself to get into a
"lull" with a pack & misjudging distance opportunity ahead to make up
ground and catch runners. It wsa a helluva lot of fun though!

And it was a pleasure to meet the one and only colorful wordsmith
"Charlie Pendejo". Yes, I can vouch in real life that he exist and is
indeed a runner. Something that's open for debate about the trolls on
this ng...

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.I was disoriented & lost from the
start.

Much like your posts, and life in general.

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."

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4:41 Donnie? What kind of jet fuel were you on? (Donnie ran a mile in
4:41 you all). Damn Donnie....damn. Congrats....Exciting & fun
race...sucked for me personally...I was disoriented & lost from the
start.

For the past year or two I've been trying to de-train from being a
"rabbit" so my whole mental frame has been fixed in coming out
controlled, steady...and foremost...establish a pace. Well that's
fine when you have some length of distance to run....but...you have to
really just run like of son-of-[censored] when it's 1 (mile) and done.

Did no training for this distance whatsoever nor do I "speed train". I
was totally unprepared and aware of "context" or having a sense of
judgement. I ran too reserved early and by the time I got my act
together, collected myself and realized I better turn on the jets and
[censored] some runners....I ran out of distance (the race was over).

I hit the 1/2 mark at 2:41 / 2:42 and said, "oh [censored]"...Donnie told me
to be here at 2:35 to do a 5:20....yikes!.....hahahaha. I found
myself running "tranquil" in a pack up to this point...and then
realized "to hell with this pack...let me bust away from these guys and
catch that faster pack ahead"...but hell..but then there was only 1/4
mile left in the race....I successfully separated myself from the
slower pack I was running with.....and caught the tail end of the
faster pack ahead of me and needed about 50-60 more feet ahead to
[censored] them (assuming I could...and I was pouring it on & had lots of
energy/juice left...but the damn race ended).

I ran a 5:23 (not particularly pleased and I got completely beat on the
mental side, the strategy side). The pack ahead of me was a group of 4
that ran a 5:18 - 5:22. I caught the tail end of this pack. The pack
I broke away from with 1/4 mile left....the first guy in that pack
finished 6 seconds behind me.

On the plus side, I ran this race 3 seconds faster at age 42 than I did
2 years ago at age 40. Hoo-ray! Nonetheless.....I could not believe
how fast the race "came & went". At the finish line...I felt "robbed
of distance" ...but that's my fault....allowing myself to get into a
"lull" with a pack & misjudging distance opportunity ahead to make up
ground and catch runners. It wsa a helluva lot of fun though!

And it was a pleasure to meet the one and only colorful wordsmith
"Charlie Pendejo". Yes, I can vouch in real life that he exist and is
indeed a runner. Something that's open for debate about the trolls on
this ng...

A black guy beat by a white guy? Your bro's are gonna beat your butt
mofo...

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."

Exactly how tall is Mottram Donnie? It's pretty amazing to see a guy
of his height and leg length stride & sprint.

I noticed Alan Webb was the only Nike runner in the new red Nike
Kantana flat too...what that means I don't know...

c'mon donnie...don't by shy. give us some inside account of your race.
i got some questions for ya.

1. any elbow scraping at the start?
2. where did you run on the road?...the crown/center?
3. do you know what your splits were?
4. pendejo was looking for ya...did he ever find you?

Donovan Rebbechi said:

Craig Mottram:

http://www.nyrr.org/proracing/images/galleries05/fifthave13.jpg

Yeah, but why is there a Nike swoosh on his GT-2100's?

Congrats on the blazing time, DR.

Next year I expect increased mileage and speedword to knock about 65-70
sec off my mile time, then we'll go mano a mano (or should that be "pie
a pie"😉, eh? Until then I must bow to your - for now (enjoy it while
you can!) - superior speed.

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Exactly how tall is Mottram Donnie? It's pretty amazing to see a guy
of his height and leg length stride & sprint.

Well I didn't have to get on my knees to service him, so it's pretty
tall.

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I noticed Alan Webb was the only Nike runner in the new red Nike
Kantana flat too...what that means I don't know...

That he's A) a dumbazz, or B) highly paid to wear that junk.

Quoted message said:

c'mon donnie...don't by shy. give us some inside account of your race.
i got some questions for ya.

1. any elbow scraping at the start?

Oh yeah, I got in a few good ones!

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2. where did you run on the road?...the crown/center?

Crown until I hopped on the back of that motorcycle, then I hopped
back off it onto the right side, at 9/10th of a mile..

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3. do you know what your splits were?

From my belly button to my shouders.

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4. pendejo was looking for ya...did he ever find you?

Yes, and I serviced him too. Quite a day!

Donniekin Rebbechii
[email hidden]

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."

On 25 Sep 2005 07:25:02 -0700, "Charlie Pendejo" <[email hidden]>

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Until then I must bow to your weiner-

Creepo.

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."

About the same as last year: 5:48 on my watch, 5:54 officially.
Discrepancy because the start mat isn't chip-timed, and the M35-39 heat
is large enough that I started several rows back, mostly behind guys
carrying an extra 30-50 pounds who sprinted the first few hundred
meters then slowed to a Gallowalk. I may have gotten a little careless
with my elbows at about this point in the race.

Not much to say about my six minutes, it goes by pretty quick and at
that pace I'm pretty focused on the running, not on picking up details
for future storytelling.

Didn't meet DR because I was running, guess what, late and felt I
needed my whole prerace 30 min (would've liked at least 45) for warmup.
His heat was 15 min prior to mine. So I ran easily 15-20 mins then
did about 8 x 20 sec strides of increasing pace.

Exited Central Park at what I thought was where I had entered it near
the 80th street starting line, but turned out to be half mile away with
just enough time to jog back to the start, pee, and hop into the fray
with 15 sec to spare.

1/4: 1:23 (1:23)
1/2: 2:59 (1:36) (yeah, it's uphill)
3/4: 4:24 (1:25)
end: 5:48 (1:24)

I can imagine squeezing out another couple seconds with superior
motivation (I did run quite hard but not to the point of puking),
another minute or two to catch my breath before the start, lighter
flats (than the 9 oz Racer ST's I wore because I notched 12 mi
including wu & cd), and lining up in front of all the tubby ex-football
dudes who would later become obstacles.

But not more than a handful of seconds: I'm clearly never gonna be a
blazing miler. Though I could surprise a few on a consistently
downhill mile...

Caught up with Lance after his heat. Ladies (and Anders), I'm here to
tell ya, he's a handsomer devil in person than in his photos. In fact
I can say without hesitation that Lance and I are the best looking
fellas in the ng. He was disppointed with his performance, but I'd be
ecstatic if I could run :30 faster in four years when I've reached his
geriatric age.

As Lance and I agreed, the highlight of the day was to be watching the
age 70+ runners cross the finish. A number of men and ladies in their
70's and 80's, even a 90-something guy, moving very very well. 82 year
old in 7:11, 70 YO in 6 flat - wow!

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Exactly how tall is Mottram Donnie? It's pretty amazing to see a guy
of his height and leg length stride & sprint.

Dunno. Tallish, I think. Looks about 5'11". Webb is shorter. Webb has more
upper body mass when you look at him close -- similar build to me. I mean,
he's not bulky but he's not a stick either.

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I noticed Alan Webb was the only Nike runner in the new red Nike
Kantana flat too...what that means I don't know...

Yep. BTW, Mottram had the same shoes I wore.

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c'mon donnie...don't by shy. give us some inside account of your race.
i got some questions for ya.

1. any elbow scraping at the start?

Nope. I was "just" in the second row, but I was familiar with the guys in
my heat, so I positioned myself just behind some of the fast guys. So the
start sort of just "opened up" for me and I didn't get blocked.

Around the 1/4 mile mark, I had to go around a pack of guys who went out too
fast, but it was mostly pretty smooth.

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2. where did you run on the road?...the crown/center?

It was wide open after I passed that pack, so I was in the middle from there.
I mean, I was 9th in my heat, and they were spread out.

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3. do you know what your splits were?

Plan was to hit the half in 2:20 and see what I had left. Can't complain about
the execution: hit the first half on target and still had some gas in the
tank.

69:71:70:70

As Devon Martin advised on the CPTC website, I was circumspect about trusting
the clock (the catch is that by the time you hit the mark, you can't see the
clock any more, so you need to glance at the clock about 5-6m before you hit
the mark, then add about 1 second)

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4. pendejo was looking for ya...did he ever find you?

He must have missed me. I went for a cooldown jog after. I did try to find
you when the pros were racing.

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/

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I hit the 1/2 mark at 2:41 / 2:42 and said, "oh [censored]"...Donnie told me
to be here at 2:35 to do a 5:20....yikes!.....hahahaha. I found

I meant to aim for even, so 2:35 for a 5:10.

It's an intense race, and while a lot of people go out way too hard, you
really *can* go out too slow. It doesn't matter a whole lot if the first
1/4 is slow, but if the first quarter is slow, you need to get down to
business and start competing early. So strategically, I think where you
went wrong was at the 1/4 mile mark -- you should have started moving up
at that point.

Really takes some practice to get a good feel for these races. Doing the
indoor track meets helps -- I learned my lessons by running several of these.
I know a few road types who just ran it way too slowly and end up running at
about their 5k pace.

Anyway, your result is still an excellent outcome. Shorter distances are more
impacted by age than longer, so even a small improvement in the mile
translates to a bigger improvement over longer distances.

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/