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 …
What a great word!
Here are some of mine:
Ultra– insanity
marathon–determination
10K–joyous
5K–Since 5K’s are the one’s my 5 and 6 year old daughters want to run with me now…my word’s will have to be–slow and steady.
3K–not for me
mile–race
800–torture!! I say that because that was what I always had to run in H.S. Mainly because no one else on the team could keep up a good enough pace for 2 laps. We had either sprinters or distance runners, no middle men. So I had to run it, and I hated it.
Great blog today