Borrowing a phrase from a friend's post on Facebook, today I trained a "Hamster Half". My friend indicated that he would be doing a snow run because he was not a hamster. I thought about that comment a lot as I ran 13.1 miles in 99 minutes and 55 seconds--doing it just fast enough so that the counter on the treadmill would not "turn over" (an old arcade term). I suppose I even felt more like a hamster with the treadmill inclined up just a little.
In any case, many of my friends ran outside this weekend, and it certainly was warm enough to consider it late this morning. But I have concluded that I am fairly risk averse--reflective of not wanting to take any risk os possibly taking a fall or twisting an ankle on a small spot at a corner or on an un-shoveled walk where snow was not fully removed and could now be slick.
It is interesting to think about risk aversion. In general, I think of myself as a fairly risk averse person. Wanting to know that things are almost certain to work out before I take them on. But Friday, someone pointed out that I have taken a new position at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School as the Vice Dean for Education. It is a fairly new school with a change in leadership and a change of school and a lot of new responsibility for me. My colleague thought I could not be too risk averse.
So, it is interesting to think about the combination of activities that I have and how my risk aversion fits (or does not fit) with each one.
In any case, many of my friends ran outside this weekend, and it certainly was warm enough to consider it late this morning. But I have concluded that I am fairly risk averse--reflective of not wanting to take any risk os possibly taking a fall or twisting an ankle on a small spot at a corner or on an un-shoveled walk where snow was not fully removed and could now be slick.
It is interesting to think about risk aversion. In general, I think of myself as a fairly risk averse person. Wanting to know that things are almost certain to work out before I take them on. But Friday, someone pointed out that I have taken a new position at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School as the Vice Dean for Education. It is a fairly new school with a change in leadership and a change of school and a lot of new responsibility for me. My colleague thought I could not be too risk averse.
So, it is interesting to think about the combination of activities that I have and how my risk aversion fits (or does not fit) with each one.
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