Today was a pleasant balance of free-time and structured time, me-time and time shared with others. All in all, it had several elements of my ideal Saturday 🙂 Allow me to enumerate:…
Category: Running & Health
My New-and-Improved, Pandemic-Era Running Regime
I had two primary running goals coming into 2020: first, to run over 1000 miles for the year, as I did last year; second, to run a 20-miler. I’m within 30 miles…
Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Good Hobby
Recently, I was running with my buddy Dave–for the first time in three months, because of the Quarantine–and we were talking about our hobbies. He told me he recently started building and…
The Benefits of Real Life Interaction
Today I went in for Jury Duty. I got myself all ready for it: I ran yesterday so I didn’t have to run today. I got up bright and early. I made…
The Life-Changing Power of Decision
Back at the beginning of 2008 I made a decision to exercise 5 days a week for at least 25 minutes. Before I made this decision, I was a some-of-the-time athlete. I…
Slogging Through to My First 20-Mile Run
Today I ran 20 miles for the first time ever. I know… that’s 6.2 miles short of an entire marathon. That’s gonna be in my future. For today, 20 was enough. I…
The Indestructible Power of the “Slow and Steady” Approach
Over the weekend, my wife and I hung out with some of our neighbors in a “socially-distant” outdoor picnic in our backyard. We were spread out in our clusters–four different couples–and we…
The Return of the Return of the Daily Blogger
It’s June 1st, 2020, and I’m ba-ba-ba-back, baby! I blogged every day in April and decided to take May off. The allure of the daily blog called to me, though, and by…
Ten Silver Linings of Pandemic Times
I am a big believer in Appreciation, because I think appreciating things draws more things to appreciate. These days especially, I make it a point to actively appreciate things throughout my day….
Feeling the Fear and Running it Anyway
So today I was supposed to run a half marathon–my 5th half marathon. But of course, this event, like all public events currently, has been cancelled…. er, postponed, date tbd. I have…