5.03mi, 50:41, 30 APR 13, Springfield, Virginia

iThink:
The Northern Pikes, "Wait For Me"
Love Spit Love, "Am I Wrong"

WX at 05:55 Calm 3.00 Light Drizzle Fog/Mist SCT004 OVC009 56 55 96% NA NA 30.12 1020.2 0.01

Odometer 12B: 340.9mi

Z2-Z3. Average/max heart rate = 141/155

Finally a proper rest day. It required me to reconsider what I thought was reasonable pace and speed. Today was substantially slower, but for good reason, even after yesterday being a day of no running. I didn't want to go hard after Sunday's long run.

Last Friday I'd gone to the Pamplin Battlefield Park near Petersburg, Virginia. Predictably, one of the books in the gift store was Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, and as I turned to the back, I saw the quotation "So it came to pass that as he trudged from the place of blood and wrath his soul changed." I remember that mostly from the Space: Above and Beyond episode "Toy Soldiers," but also think about it in terms of my own disillusionment over the last few years.

That's what made this morning's iThink that much more pointed for me. The first one is from a disk I bought sometime in 1996, I think, when I was living in Texas and had a lot of freedom to do whatever I wanted, at the expense of not really having anyone else in my life. The second one, though, was from 1995, when I was dating another Army officer at the time, and the film we went to go see was Angus, whose opening credits featured the song. I remember that partly because I didn't know anything about the film, and found it much more thought-provoking than I had originally thought. The other was because I was 23 at the time, and still hopeful about a great many things. My simmering rage had not taken hold, as it did after I came back to the United States in 2009.

Splits

SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 09:59 09:59 09:59 09:59 1.00
1.00 20:29 10:30 10:30 10:15 2.00
1.00 30:03 09:34 09:34 10:01 3.00
1.00 40:01 09:58 09:58 10:00 4.00
1.03 50:41 10:40 10:21 10:05 5.03