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. What Counts (1999-11-24), 2008-03-23 - Sunrise Service at Seneca Creek (2008-03-24), ...) - ^z - 2009-02-10}