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Gazelle or Monkey is my style

Av Pelle - 29 november 2008 14:22

Managed to run 20 km's this morning again. It starts do be a nice routine to do the weekend main training session already on Saturday morning. It feels good to have it done. Then anything or nothing that happens for the rest of the weekend, is OK.

During my year in Kuala Lumpur, I was lucky early on to run in to Choi, who invited me to join him & his running friends for LSD training on Sat mornings. Those training sessions + some marathons, were the base for my survival mode running in Malaysia. I got very sick of indoor threadmills and the heat and humitidy made it hard to run outside during the days. After 8.30 in the mornings it was to hot already. It was really early mornings for me. Getting up before 5 AM to eat some light breakfast and drive down to Bukit Aman car park at Lake Gardens, from where we started at 6 AM. Still dark and no traffic yet. Most of the dangerous animals were probably still asleep. Azlan, my local manager, had told me lots of scary stories about snakes, tigers, etc that killed people around the KL area on a regular basis in the bush, but but ... I encountered mainly monkeys. It was good to be a part of team of runners anyhow. If you meet a hungry tiger, you just have to run faster than the slowest runner in the team. A tiger will be happy with one person for breakfast. Perhaps 2 since most runners are skinny guys ;-)

There's an anecdot from Africa, that I picked up a long time ago and like very much, that goes like this:

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up,

It knows that it has to outrun the fastest Lion or it will be killed.

Every morning in Africa, a Lion wakes up,

It knows that it has to run faster than the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death.

So, it doesn't really matter who you are. When the sun gets up, you'll better be running!

I remember that I once had a pair of Adidas Gazelle shoes, that I liked very much, but they were more of general sports style, not for running. I also had a pair of specialized running shoes of the brand Tiger, that I didn't like at all. I think I gave them away to Yngve. I bet that he still wears them (just joking Yngve, if you by chance read this).Tiger was actually the Swedish branding for Asics back then. Also Lejon shoes were big in the eighties, but a bit to sloppy in the structure and poor cushioning.

My conclusion with all this is that my style is probably more of a Gazelle than a Tiger or Lion. If someone releases Monkey shoes I might try them too. Must be good for off road running.

 

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