That Introspective Time of Year!
Hello my fellow bloggers, friends and fellow runners!
I have run 1850 miles in 2007. I took both Saturday and Sunday last off - Saturday due to a Jeep trip that never happened (it was just too cold out), and Sunday because I did do a jeep trip. I am trying to keep to 25 miles per week during the winter doldrums.
Setting Goals
I have a friend. Lots of you know him and may read his blog regularly. His name is Jamie and he is the Diabetic Runner.
He has a goal, a resolution, an objective. It involves promoting an awareness of a disease that he lives with every day. He'd like to make people aware of Diabetes.
The thing I like about Jamie is that he is alwasy looking to better himself. He is not content to just go with the hand that he is dealt. Instead, he works at getting a better hand. He also succeeds at it. Read his blog and you will see what I mean!
Many of my fellow runners set a goal for themselves in 2007. Thanks to Adam Tinkoff and his Burning 20 podcast, may of us set a 1,000 mile goal to run in 2007. It was the The Tinkoff 1,000.
Jamie has a similar goal. I would like for you to read about it, think about it and, maybe, commit to it. I have. You can get all of the details here.
Meeting Another with Similar Likes
Many of you have met fellow bloggers in our travels through this world. I was able to do that today. I got a call this morning this morning from Peter, the DC Spinster. He is in Denver. We will not neet on this visit, but will on another day. He described his run this morning through areas of this town that I know well. It was great to talk to him! Thanks, Peter!
If you do not read his blog, you really should. He presents himself with personal dedication and humor. I always look forward to new posts.
And, yes... He did remind me that I am not blogging like I was. That should probably become another resolution for me for the new year.
Rhythm and the Run!
I started my run this morning and before I knew it I was running in a state of bliss. It came on me slowly but steadily. I felt a calm of body coordination, rhythm and ability. Everything was working for today's run. The elbows were bent just right, the hands comfortable in front of me, and the footfalls of my feet were steady and rhythmic. It was a great way to experience a run.
Does that happen to any of you as you run?
I have run 1850 miles in 2007. I took both Saturday and Sunday last off - Saturday due to a Jeep trip that never happened (it was just too cold out), and Sunday because I did do a jeep trip. I am trying to keep to 25 miles per week during the winter doldrums.
Setting Goals
I have a friend. Lots of you know him and may read his blog regularly. His name is Jamie and he is the Diabetic Runner.
He has a goal, a resolution, an objective. It involves promoting an awareness of a disease that he lives with every day. He'd like to make people aware of Diabetes.
The thing I like about Jamie is that he is alwasy looking to better himself. He is not content to just go with the hand that he is dealt. Instead, he works at getting a better hand. He also succeeds at it. Read his blog and you will see what I mean!
Many of my fellow runners set a goal for themselves in 2007. Thanks to Adam Tinkoff and his Burning 20 podcast, may of us set a 1,000 mile goal to run in 2007. It was the The Tinkoff 1,000.
Jamie has a similar goal. I would like for you to read about it, think about it and, maybe, commit to it. I have. You can get all of the details here.
Meeting Another with Similar Likes
Many of you have met fellow bloggers in our travels through this world. I was able to do that today. I got a call this morning this morning from Peter, the DC Spinster. He is in Denver. We will not neet on this visit, but will on another day. He described his run this morning through areas of this town that I know well. It was great to talk to him! Thanks, Peter!
If you do not read his blog, you really should. He presents himself with personal dedication and humor. I always look forward to new posts.
And, yes... He did remind me that I am not blogging like I was. That should probably become another resolution for me for the new year.
Rhythm and the Run!
I started my run this morning and before I knew it I was running in a state of bliss. It came on me slowly but steadily. I felt a calm of body coordination, rhythm and ability. Everything was working for today's run. The elbows were bent just right, the hands comfortable in front of me, and the footfalls of my feet were steady and rhythmic. It was a great way to experience a run.
Does that happen to any of you as you run?
posted by CewTwo at 1:12 PM
4 Comments:
Great to talk to you this morning. Great to run in the early morning darkness on the 16th Street Mall in Denver too, always a bustling place. It has turned into a Denver treasure. I remember being around Larimer Square in the summer of 1969 when they were just starting to do the urban renewal. I was, uh, a little young even for 3.2 (any of your readers know what that was?) but I was in an old man's bar around there with my older cousin. It was a seedy part of town, straight out of Kerouac's On The Road (which turned 50 this year). Listening to a current song "Running Bear" over and over on the jukebox, the bar owner bemoaning his loss of license due to the renewal, the bar due to close up the next day, 2 am shots of whiskey (of course I didn't have any), the bartender at one point saying he'd come over the bar if I didn't keep matching my cousin (I was falling behind him, he was older), hurling the shotglasses symbolically at the wall as we walked out of the bar one last time deep in the morning, this is America for you, the old and the new.
What does that have to do with running? Well, Running Bear was running.
Wow, you really got in a lot of miles this year. That's awesome!
Best of luck to you in 2008. You mentioned on my blog you like the half marathon distance. I feel the same way. I think it's a great distance.
Hello friend!
I am heading to Jamie's site RIGHT NOW. Challenges are good!
Thats just the kind of run we all live for! Happens once in a while.. but its well worth the wait.
Thanks for the links you shared.
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