Writing helps me come to grips with many things

Florida Sand Hill Cranes
Yesterday at the start of the walk.

 

Florida Sand Hill Cranes

 

Florida Sand Hill Cranes

 

As crazy as it sounds, being vibrantly healthy feels awkward when the conversation shifts to how important health is and how few make it a lifetime commitment.

Yesterday marked the half-way point of the 10-day course of Amoxicillin. It was a rest day, but felt a need for movement.

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It has to make sense to you or you will fail

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Find an activity that makes sense for you. It does not have to be running.

 

Accept this fact: we will struggle, and we will find joy.

Wasn’t planning on logging a half-marathon yesterday. And it wasn’t a struggle. It just happened. Drenched in sweat for two-plus hours, it was joy.

There’s a big difference between struggling and failing.

Struggling comes with the territory.

The goal is to not fail.

For a lifetime.

Go. Move. Do something that makes sense to you.

Expect struggles to ebb and flow.

Expect this to last a lifetime.

The only way to fail is to not accept a lifetime of struggle.

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Did Isaac Newton exercise?

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Yesterday’s run included 10 miles of negative splits before backing off the pace.

 

What if impossible really is nothing?

Isaac Newton is remembered for saying the obvious:

A body at rest tends to stay at rest. A body in motion tends to stay in motion.

Back to back excellent interval workouts had me wanting feeling a change was necessary yesterday.

Some LSD.

Some long, slow, distance.

Maybe a 10-11 miler.

A different turn about four miles in would provide a route not run before. How far would it be?

It turned out to be 16.1 miles.

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Just get started, please

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Negative splits and the final mile the fastest.

 

Just get started, please.

Time, comparison, inability, lack of motivation, procrastination.

Screw those things.

Note: When i started running in 1999, 100 meters was all i could do. Yesterday however, mile 8 was the final (and fastest) mile if you subtract mile 9 as a cool down and mile 10 as a walk (additional cool down).

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