Quotes by Joe Henderson - Page 1

That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.
Joe Henderson /
Sport
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His name, Buzz, fits. He can buzz along at 40 miles an hour when his genetic memory moves him.
Joe Henderson /
Buzz
Miles
Fits
Genetic
Hour
Memory
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They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions.
Joe Henderson /
Distance
Pace
Periods
Checking
Mostly
Trained
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That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.
Joe Henderson /
Comforting
Permanence
Mile
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Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.
Joe Henderson /
Courses
Dozens
Hundreds
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Time means a great deal to every runner. It means everything to me, because most days miles don't count; only minutes do.
Joe Henderson /
Miles
Minutes
Time Great Me
Count
Great Deal
Runner
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The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.
Joe Henderson /
Records
Seconds
Easily
Dozens
Wait
Hardly
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The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.
Joe Henderson /
Deadline
Defeat
Distance
Every Second
Harder
Sooner
Finish
Push
Urge
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A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.
Joe Henderson /
Light
Looks
Weather
Twice
Quite
Same
Find
Combinations
Course
Ever-Changing
Season
Thoughts
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I've lived nearby since 1981 and probably have averaged one run a week there. That's more than 1,000 repetitions, and I have yet to tire of this course.
Joe Henderson /
Tire
Averaged
Nearby
Repetitions
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In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of legitimate runners.
Joe Henderson /
Assistance
Finish Line
Mess
Runners
Cross
Drinks
Finish
Provided
Scoring
Steal
Worse
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A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.
Joe Henderson /
Customers
Racing
Enter
Event
Fundamental
Insists
Interferes
Lesser
Paying
Properly
Rule
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I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut.
Joe Henderson /
Harder
Verdict
Feared
Shut
Snapped
Trap
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The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are.
Joe Henderson /
Effort
Minutes
Reminders
Seconds
Visible
Efforts
Lets
Preserve
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Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.
Joe Henderson /
Dump
Former
Garbage
Marathon
Ran
Riverside
Years Ago
Converted
Park
Passed
Trail
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This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by running with the watch instead of against it or away from it.
Joe Henderson /
Running
Friendly
Moving
Time Past Your
Ahead
Turning
Instead
Refresh
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The Chip also reduces the damage done by bandits. They still steal drinks and cheers along the course, but no longer scramble the paying runners' results. No entry fee, no Chip, no time or place.
Joe Henderson /
Damage
Entry
Runners
Cheers
Chip
Drinks
Fee
No Time
Paying
Scramble
Steal
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Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily.
Joe Henderson /
Harder
Records
Speed
Trials
Time Work Me
Time Work Daily
Daily
Drop
Work Time Daily
Forced
Less Time
Peak
Races
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Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do.
Joe Henderson /
Buzz
Fewer
Multiple
Range
Routes
Runners
Per
Laps
Minds
Neither
Reduced
Repeating
Returns
Safely
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The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.
Joe Henderson /
Batteries
Died
Erase
Mistake
Save
Stayed
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Ours is a life of constant reruns. We're always circling back to where we'd we started, then starting all over again. Even if we don't run extra laps that day, we surely will come back for more of the same another day soon.
Joe Henderson /
Another Day
Constant
Reruns
Starting
Life Day Will
Life Always Where
Life Always Day
Circling
Extra
Laps
Ours
Surely
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When running to fill a time quota, however, the reverse happens. You can't make that time pass any faster by rushing, so you settle into a pace that feels right to you at the moment. Each minute above a quota is a little victory.
Joe Henderson /
Faster
Pace
Quota
Reverse
Rushing
Above
Fill
Minute
Pass
Settle
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These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.
Joe Henderson /
Covered
Officials
Surveillance
Thieves
Crowd
Defend
Excuses
Hidden
Jacket
Missed
Shirt
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