Every so often when I'm out running I catch myself gathering material for the write-up: a quote-of-the-day, a funny image, a descriptive phrase, etc. Sometimes when I see a mile marker I'll speed up to make a particular split time look particularly fast. But what really counts, of course, isn't what goes into the logbook—it's what you do, even if no one remembers it ...

(cf. WhatCounts (1999-11-24), Sunrise Service at Seneca Creek (2008-03-24), ...) - ^z - 2009-02-10