Sluggo: On breathing

"Les Poseur", Sluggo continues his training efforts for his first marathon. Still conviced he can haul his lumbersome physique 26.2 miles in a (near) three hour timeframe, Sluggo has begun training in earnest for a yet-to-be-named Fall race.

His workouts seem to vary between exhausing "power" walks and the occassional jog with weekly distance maybe covering 10 miles. His monsterous ego has all but blacked-out any doubt of his athletic prowess, and he continues to crow about his three hour goal with more confidence and bravado than could be mustered in a meeting between Barry Bonds, Bret Farve, Charles Barkley AND Mohamad Ali.

In fact, workouts are going so pleasingly well that Slulggo has begun to vocally impart advise (in today's cubed work environment, a person can't avoid overhearing such broadcasts and pontifications unless of course one is deaf or lives in another county). His recent training tip harkens back to breathing techniques he once learned in Junior High. We've learned that these same techniques have now been resurrected to fully develop his training form and experience.

So... all together now... Breath in (haaaaaaaaaaaa).... breath out (wheeeeeeeeeeeeew)... See that's not so bad, is it? Sluggo may be onto something. Let's try that again except this time with "feeling"... breath in.... breath out..... very good!! Now we simply need to remember to breath when we run, and hope (in our case) that the oxygen actually reaches our brains.