Fred Ecks (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} fredx) wrote,@ 2007-01-16 09:34:00 |
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Kindred spirits
As I browsed the current issue of Trail Runner last night, I ran across an interview with Anton Krupicka. He's the guy who won the Leadville Trail 100 footrace last year (100 miles of trails up high in the Rocky Mountains). As I started reading the interview, I found myself giggling. Here's an excerpt:
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How do you find time to run so much?
I run twice daily, four days a week, but even on those days, I fit the majority of my mileage into a two-and-a-half to three-hour morning run. Then I do a much shorter run in the evening, usually with other people. On the weekends, I run just once eacch day for three to six hours. I usually end up running alone because not many people want to run as early or as far.
Tell me about your self-proclaimed "cheap bastard" lifestyle.
[Laughs] I guess my standards of living are different than most folks. I have no problem sleeping on the floor, eating month-old bagels salvaged from the local shop, not buying new clothes, not going out to eat or wearing shoes with my toes poking out.
So what do you spend money on?
I spend my money with a few important thoughts in mind: (a) the less money I spend on trivial, inconsequential crap, the more resources I will have to pay for activities that actually mean something to me like traveling and running the mountains; (b) contributing to our society's hegemonic, environment- and humanity-destroying fasco-industrialist corporatocracy through mindless conpicuous consumerism is not at all fulfilling to me; and (c) the things you own, end up owning you -- and I like being free. My lifestyle is relatively emblematic of my oblivious youth. I'm enjoying the general blitheness and nonchalance that is pretty much only possible when in concert with profound ignorance.
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Well, you've gotta admit, he has his opinions! I'd love to meet this guy someday.
As I browsed the current issue of Trail Runner last night, I ran across an interview with Anton Krupicka. He's the guy who won the Leadville Trail 100 footrace last year (100 miles of trails up high in the Rocky Mountains). As I started reading the interview, I found myself giggling. Here's an excerpt:
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How do you find time to run so much?
I run twice daily, four days a week, but even on those days, I fit the majority of my mileage into a two-and-a-half to three-hour morning run. Then I do a much shorter run in the evening, usually with other people. On the weekends, I run just once eacch day for three to six hours. I usually end up running alone because not many people want to run as early or as far.
Tell me about your self-proclaimed "cheap bastard" lifestyle.
[Laughs] I guess my standards of living are different than most folks. I have no problem sleeping on the floor, eating month-old bagels salvaged from the local shop, not buying new clothes, not going out to eat or wearing shoes with my toes poking out.
So what do you spend money on?
I spend my money with a few important thoughts in mind: (a) the less money I spend on trivial, inconsequential crap, the more resources I will have to pay for activities that actually mean something to me like traveling and running the mountains; (b) contributing to our society's hegemonic, environment- and humanity-destroying fasco-industrialist corporatocracy through mindless conpicuous consumerism is not at all fulfilling to me; and (c) the things you own, end up owning you -- and I like being free. My lifestyle is relatively emblematic of my oblivious youth. I'm enjoying the general blitheness and nonchalance that is pretty much only possible when in concert with profound ignorance.
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Well, you've gotta admit, he has his opinions! I'd love to meet this guy someday.
