In the world of IT, users are constantly looking for performance out of their systems. Whether its a high powered laptop with as much memory as some severs. A 10 Gigabit network backbone with 1 Gigabit to the desktop. A wireless mesh running at 5GHz instead of 2.4. A tablet with the latest processor. Or a server system running on SSD hard drives, performance is key!
It sucks to have to wait for something to complete it's computations or to transfer data packets. This frustration is what we call a bottleneck. The one piece of the puzzle that can bring a user's work to a halt. Bottlenecks can be anything from too many apps installed, fragmented hard drives, old operating system, or lack of RAM.
So what does all this have to do with my run?
I'm glad you asked!
Since I started this whole running thing I've had different things that would cause me to have bad run performance. It got me to thinking that I have my own bottlenecks!! Yeah, an analogy!
It's actually easier to define my bottlenecks than my performance!
Some nights it's my knees, sometimes it's my legs. Too often it's my belly and the dinner that's bouncing around in there! Some nights it's a low battery in my phone or my feet going numb. Tonight it was my lungs. The weather changing for the cooler side has my lungs freaking out, wheezing a little more than normal. Nearly every night though my mind plays the bottleneck role. When my body is screaming at me to stop, slow down, turn here and go home, you've run enough! My mind tells me to listen.
But like a dedicated addict, I push on. I tell my body, that I wont go that far this time...that I'll change, I mean it. ...all lies!
This post is obviously all intended to deceive you all so that I don't have to say I haven't run since Thursday last week!
3.23 miles, 34:31
Later.
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