Recently I’ve been sleeping longer each night, especially since my 26-miler last month. I have happily indulged this need (and desire) for sleep. And I’m not just talking about getting a few…
Author: Chris
Day 138: Shifting My Focus To Transform My Experience
Okay, so I am shifting my focus to transform an unwanted experience into something joyful! 🙂 Here are my notes on the subject: What is the opportunity here? To go unconditional. To…
Day 137: Bring on the Taper
I am now in the part of marathon training known as tapering. Over the next two and a half weeks, I’ll reduce my running mileage to rest up for the California International…
Day 136: Running in Crowds
Generally I have good associations with being in public races. I like the positive energy, the music, the support of friends and family videoing their loved ones as they run by, the…
Day 135: A Three Year Journey of Slowing Down
As a runner, my relationship with speed has evolved quite a lot in the past three years. My speed has moved in one direction–down–with each marathon training, as I find a comfortable…
Day 134: “In Search of Answers” (Original Music)
This is a piano/orchestra piece I wrote a few days ago…
Day 133: Today’s Significant Run
Oh man, I am so excited by how today’s run went! Things didn’t start quite so positively. I awoke in the early hours obsessing like I had been since last Sunday’s 27.5…
Day 132: A Perfect Match
Is I type this, I am listening to a playlist on Apple Music of my compositions. I create my compositions on a computer program called Logic. Since the beginning of June, I…
Day 131: Daily Digital Bread Crumbs
Sometimes I love what I post on this blog. Other times I just want to get a post done. Sometimes I love putting the words together, carefully editing them and articulating them…
Day 130: Optimism Restored
Interesting how concern can change in an instant to relief, then optimism restored. As of yesterday, my legs were still a bit sore from Sunday’s run. As yesterday’s post suggests, I was…