songs of experience

I told my daughter that I had a word for those days when you’re unmotivated and your legs are dead … when you pass a golf-course driving range, tennis court, or baseball field on your run, and you think, “This is a stupid sport.” That word is “ifeelishi,” pronounced, “Ah-fill-ah-shee” - but means “I feel like sh__t.” (Unfortunately, I can’t take credit for inventing this word - it comes from the warped mind of Atlanta Track Club legend, Clay Herron, who also coined a favorite phrase of mine, “Don’t sit down or that chair will eat you!” when we were dancing too-late into the night at one of his Peachtree post-race parties).

This one word got me to thinking about one-word definitions or directives.
When describing each distance race, can you narrow it down to just one word?
Here are mine:

800m - form (for true middle-distance runners); grind (for the rest of us)

1,500m/mile - race

3k indoor/3k steeple - attack

5k - endure

10k - rhythm

marathon - conserve

ultra-marathon - pray

tutorials to follow …