In article <
[email protected]>, Doug Freese
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[email protected]> wrote:
> Tim Downie wrote:
>
> > I'm sure Ozzie is a terribly nice guy but a part of me
> > can't help wondering if he isn't a quad-rolling-stick
> > wielding psychopath who lures unsuspecting runners to
> > his "marathon training camps" and then bludgeons them to
> > death with said stick. ;-)
>
> Sounds like he is performing a valid population control
> service.
> >
> > (I'm sure he's not but just how much do we *really* know
> > about Ozzie's character from his posts?)
>
> After reading his stuff for a century plus a few personal
> notes, he either has a ghost writer paid to be 100% gentle
> or he is in fact the real deal.
Doug,
I am honored, and look forward to that run.
I am over the zealot, fanatic, and proselitizer stage of my
running. It started in '94 or '95 when I came to rec.running
to have my answers questioned. The sticks, Ma Rollers,
hoses, PVC pipes are no longer used for the mental or
psychological bludgeoning I was know to dole out to an
runner whether they want to hear it or know. "Oh, let me
show you something you can do for your...."
I still hold to most of the folklore I have shared and have
had improved thanks to the questioning and challenging of
rec.running posters and their inquiring minds.
I've appreciated the likes of and would like to run with
you, Mike Tennent, Robert Grumbine, Miles Lakin, Patrick
Arno, Sam, Dot, Josh, Madeleine Page, Lyndon, and probably
another hundred or two hundred members of rec.running who
came with right intentions, stayed, shared, and left. I just
contacted Mike Van Meter after a few years. I believe he'll
get his page up and running sometime in the near future.
At times I would have liked to meet Roger just to see the
person behind the troller's multiple masks and fascades. I
received a personal email from him on Sept. 15, 2003 which
sat in my email unread until Jan. 04, since I didn't realize
that when I switched to SBC they switched to the my sbc
address on the mail server. So I was never able to respond
directly to
[email protected] as my reply bounced.
For me I'd love to run with most of the people that have
passed through or continue to hang around rec.running. I've
posted less over the past 5 or 6 months as I've set some
goals to accomplish and my posting was keeping me unfocused.
I have completed the content and the cartoons for the
running booklet and they also remain on the back burner.
It's hard to believe that we've been hanging together over
two centuries. With 30 pounds up from my running weight of
20 years ago, I definitely am in need to be a former ghost
(writer) of myself.
Rec.running has been a wonderful place to confront my ego,
my righteousness, and my desire to project onto others what
I need to be dealing within myself. I have learned how easy
it is for me to go unconscious.
I have learned to wait before sending posts in response to
something that has irritated, angered, troubled, upset or
ticked me off. Or at other times, a long run after writing
has put into context what I said showing me how foolish my
response would be if I sent it. When this happens I've been
able to start again. Socrates called it his Daimon. When
that inner voice spoke he would say: Disregard all that I
have said and let me begin again.
If they would like to run, or would prefer to sit, or even
walk or spend some quiet time, I'd like to spend time with
Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, Lao Tzu, Shakespeare, Krishna, a
wolf pack, a pride of lions, a flock of Artic Terns (the
furthest migrating creature alive), a super colony of
Argentinian ants, da Vinci, Marco Polo, Anthony DeMello,
Thich Nhat Hanh, my mom and dad, Geronimo, Black Elk, Carlos
Castenada's Don Juan, St Theresa of Avila, Thomas Merton,
Heroditus, Josephus, and any of the storytellers who have
passed on the oral histories of their cultures.
The San Diego Marathon Clinic will be 29 years old next
Sunday. It's been a interesting and lovely journey!
In health and on the run, Ozzie Gontang Maintainer -
rec.running FAQ Director, San Diego Marathon Clinic, est.
1975
Mindful Running:
http://www.mindfulness.com/mr.asp http://www.faqs.org/faqs/running-
faq/