Yesterday, November 24, saw the
blue-loving 83neans garbed in green tops
for our training run inside Camp
Aguinaldo.
All four of us - Ernie, Ed, Fards, and BP - were wearing green. Only Ghibz came in a different color
(purple). Normally for our weekly long runs, we are in blue or white. But this Sunday, without any consultation
with each other, the running 83neans all decided to wear something in a shade
of green.
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| Two pairs of shades of green |
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| Clash of Colors |
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| Heat training in green |
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| Ghibz- lone wolf in purple |
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| Greenest of Green |
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| Color coordinated, head to foot |
What gives?
Maybe we can do a bit of research
and google what the color "green" represents.
From a color psychology
perspective
(http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/color-green.html), it is
the great balancer of the heart and the emotions, creating equilibrium between
the head and the heart.
From a meaning of colors
perspective, green is also the color of growth, the color of spring, of renewal
and rebirth. It renews and restores depleted energy. It is the sanctuary away
from the stresses of modern living, restoring us back to a sense of well being.
This is why there is so much of this relaxing color on the earth, and why we
need to keep it that way.
Green is an emotionally positive
color, giving us the ability to love and nurture ourselves and others
unconditionally.
Being a combination of yellow and
blue, green encompasses the mental clarity and optimism of yellow with the
emotional calm and insight of blue, inspiring hope and a generosity of spirit
not available from other colors.
Green promotes a love of nature,
and a love of family, friends, pets and the home. It is the color of the garden
lover, the home lover and the good host.
It is generous and loves to
share, but it also looks for recognition. It is friendly and can keep
confidences.
This color relates to stability
and endurance, giving us persistence and the strength to cope with adversity.
Looking at this, we are tempted
to say that the color Green is most apt for ultra running as it is about
enduring and coping with adversity -
traits most helpful to long distance running.
Another
website (http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html) talks about the
color Green as having great healing power. This is something we wish for our classmate Fards as he recovers from
his injuries. The 21-km run yesterday
was in fact his longest run for the year.
Something to celebrate indeed.
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| Fards with his longest run of the year |
P.S. Thanks to Ernie for the pictures.
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