Children are the victims of adults' vices

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (minutes)	14 flights	Start time
23 June	Moscow	95	1:24.59	07:45

          I ran around the area near my apartment today and happened to find an interesting group of statues. They are in Bolotnay Square—a place where significant protests against V. Putin’s proposed, and now realized, third term as president, occurred in 2012. The statues are quite remarkable.

The Orlyonok running experience

Here are all my blog posts about my runs in Orlyonok:

June 17; The mind is the master

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (minutes)	123 steps(s)	400 meters(s)	Start time
17 June	Orlyonok-Орлёнок	2		1:13.19	18:35

          I did it. I smashed my record by nearly 2 seconds. You might think that’s nothing big, but the other teachers around my table in the cafeteria all know it’s monumental.

June 16; Ugh!

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (minutes)	123 steps(s)	400 meters quarter mile(s)	Start time
16 June	Orlyonok-Орлёнок	52	30.57	1:15.70	07:19

           Someone said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and getting the same result over and over, all the time expecting to get a different result (or something like that…maybe it was Einstein). 

June 15; Barriers

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (minutes)	123 steps(s)	400 meters quarter mile(s)	Start time
15 June	Orlyonok-Орлёнок	55	26.07	1:15.57	07:19

           Ridiculous. How can someone come within two seconds of the goal seven times in nine days, but NOT cross the barrier? What excuses can I find today? It began raining at the start of my run. There were several people on the track. I didn’t think about picking up my knees, and I thought about running on my toes only at the beginning. 

June 14; A running partner .13 seconds!!!! Ugh!!!

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (minutes)	123 steps(s)	400 meters quarter mile(s)	Start time
14 June	Orlyonok-Орлёнок	61	27.93	1:15.13	07:19

          Ugh! .13 seconds. As I crossed the halfway mark, I glanced at my watch to see that I was at 38 seconds—on pace for 1:16. I reasoned that was exactly where I needed to be. I didn’t slow down at this point; I maintained my pace, and soon expended greater effort.

June 13; New method of running

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (minutes)	123 steps(s)	400 meters quarter mile(s)	Start time
13 June	Orlyonok-Орлёнок	55	29.19	1:16.22	07:20

          I tried to new method of running the 400 meters today. Rather than run at the limit of my exertion from the very beginning, I decided I would try to pace myself. I had been under the impression that the quarter mile was a short distance, and that I should be able to give an all-out effort during the entire sprint. No.

June 12; Video of 400 meters

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (minutes)	123 steps(s)	400 meters(s)	Start time
12 June	Orlyonok-Орлёнок	65	27.87	1:16.49	07:19

          Possibly a new pain, possibly it was simply unrecognized earlier, but my hamstrings were sore after the fingers were tingling and at nearly the same time as the inside of the elbows. My neck presented no pain today—possibly because I did not strain sufficiently. 

Young dude kicks my butt

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (minutes)	123 steps(s)	400 meters(s)	Start time
11* June	Orlyonok-Орлёнок	52	27.41	1:17.13	07:16

          First my fingers were tingling—not a terribly unpleasant feeling, but unusual. Then, the inside of my elbows began to ache, followed by aching in my neck. All of this accompanied by acute inability to breath, gasping for oxygen with great gulps of air that perpetually left me unsatisfied in my effort to reach equilibrium. This great strain began after the conclusion of the sprint.

June 8 and 9; The bittersweet agony of near success

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (minutes)	123 steps(s)	400 meters(s)	Start time
9 June	Orlyonok-Орлёнок	49	27.93	1:15.09	07:19

          Oh, the bittersweet agony of near success. Earlier this week I had run the quarter mile* in almost 75 seconds, 76.03 and 76.83, two times this week. Therefore, I thought it shouldn’t be too difficult for me to run just a bit faster and achieve my long-standing goal from four years ago.

The win of logic

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (minutes)	123 steps(s)	400 meters(s)	Start time
7 June	Orlyonok-Орлёнок	43	28.21		07:16

          Our first swim today. The water was wonderful! I keep telling everyone that we need to go to the sea. I mean WE as in all the kids. Elena said that when we get back to camp, we should not tell the kids that we went swimming. 

Four year record in danger

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (minutes)	123 steps(s)	400 meters(s)	Start time
6 June	Orlyonok-Орлёнок	43	27.37	1:16.03	07:32

          A real accomplishment today. Elena and I ran to the gate area as usual, but today was a wondrous day—no rain, blue sky, birds filling the sky with song.

Orlyonok great day

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (minutes)	123 steps (s)	Start time
5 June	Orlyonok-Орлёнок	44	32.25	07:31

          Elena and I ran today and are planning to run again tomorrow. I have been feeling fabulous. I was even wondering today if I would be able to run a marathon right now. Legs are fine, feet are fine, ankles are fine. I have a fabulous constitution.

Black Sea in the rain

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (minutes)	123  steps (s)	Start time
4 June	Orlyonok-Орлёнок	40	29.34	07:31

          A wondrous thing occurred recently. Elena, a teacher from Anapa in Russia, came to teach the lower levels of our English classes. This, in itself, isn’t anything to write about, but the day before yesterday, I noticed that she was wearing a shirt that proclaimed that she had run 44 km.

Moscow May 2016

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (minutes)	Classic Sprint	Dam Sprint	Start time
29 May	Moscow-VDNX	35			07:47

          Staying with a friend near VDNX. Took a lovely run through a park. I guess it’s near VDNX, but not very close. There are about 8 bus stops between the BDNX metro station and the apartment.

Final performance of Riverside Drive

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (minutes)	Classic Sprint	Dam Sprint	Start time
25 May	park	37	48.10	1:38.56	08:47

          Oh, my! On top of my game, definitely! Many times, when I begin, I am troubled by creaking knees and small pains in the legs. Today, however, straight out of the blocks, I was feeling like Nightingale at night. I might even say I was whisking along the pavement even before the final sprint.