• The credit card, literally, but the effort, literarily •
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The old Mastercard credit-card commercials got it right about the value of achieving. This piece is my perspective, though, on how the value accrues by an increase in every degree of appeal. In this case there’s a bunch of them.
PHYSICAL
- The opportunity to burn holiday calories,
- Another chance to refine my icy-trail-condition running technique,
- The goal to maintain 14-mile LSD’s for inter-marathon conditioning,
- The luxury of stopping as long (and briefly) as I want;
SOCIAL
- The opportunity to encourage other stalwarts on the roads (surprisingly many),
- The ability to stop at CVS (Main St., Manayunk) without impeding the progress of other runners,
- The opportunity to thank faithful census-taker Teddio yet again;
MENTAL
- The liberty to (over-) think and mentally draft this rumination in the absence of incessant blathering (Yes, of course I meant mine);
CHRONOLOGICAL
- The privilege to represent the club for the last run of the 1st quarter of the 21st century;
COMMUNAL
- The privilege of hearing Teddio say I was a better man than he for running in the rain,
- And finally…
While I’ve shared multiple (Writing Prompts) degrees of appeal for running in the rain last week, one rises above them all which Teddio bestowed upon me for being the sole rainy-day club runner; to use the words of late club-principal Zen Yanni: Bragging Rights (Ruminations). And that degree of appeal? Priceless.
-CtCloser (Calvinthe) “Negative Split or Positive Splat” #dothedue
FINE PRINT ¶Text by Calvin Wang (Wäng), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. ¶Cross-published: Facebook Shawmont Running Club (ZY Weekly Newsletter 12/28/24), Shawmont Running Club website, Ruminations by CtCloser. ¶This website posting: Rumination only with added caption.
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