This year has been amazing for me as a runner. Perhaps ironically, the lack of ambitious running goals has made this year far more pleasing to my spirit than last year, in…
Category: Running & Health
Day 349: A Consistent Yet Relaxed Running Life
I continue to enjoy the mellowness of my running life: productive and consistent, yet relaxed. For about four-and-a-half months, I have held to a four-day running routine: two hour-long runs and one…
Day 318: Appreciating the Walk Break
Tonight I’d like to speak in appreciation of the walk break. To me, it is an excellent tool of the “slow-and-steady” ilk. It is great for reforming speedsters like myself, as it…
Day 305: Seven Days of Balanced Exercise
I’m enjoying my easy-going-yet-stimulating exercise schedule. In fact, I exercised each day in the last seven, not in an uptight or excessive way, but in an easy-going way with plenty of variety,…
Day 301: Drawn to Flexibility
As it turns out, I took a five day break from blogging 🙂 I mentioned in my last post (illustrious Day 300, no less!) I was going camping with my mom last…
Day 300: Dress Rehearsal for My Next Backpacking Trip?
So I am taking a camping trip with my mom this week. This is the first time in years I have either gone camping or camped with my mom. I am now…
Day 291: Bay-to-Breakers 2023!
Today I had an incredible time running the Bay-to-Breakers, a 7.5 mile run through San Francisco with 20,000 other runners, with my brother. I say it was an incredible time–and it was–despite…
Day 289: It’s the Experience!
Today I was thinking about a great Abraham recording I heard recently. On it, they said something like, “It’s not the stuff of life you are after. It’s the experience of life.”…
Day 278: Doing What Fits
So I ran another six miles today: over to McKinley Park and around four times before coming back. It was the same route I took last week. It was pleasant out. I…
Day 274: The Playful Whimsy of My “Bazinga” T-Shirt
Isn’t it interesting how the world around us reflects our own mood in each moment, sometimes in strange and interesting ways? I jogged at McKinley Park this morning. McKinley Park has been…