Running
- Today was supposed to be the start of my son’s last couple of basketball games at their State tournament.
- Today was supposed to be a continuation of my middle child’s hockey Jamboree where it would be the last time they play with these girls for the season.
- Today was also supposed to be when my youngest was going to perform on Stage dancing the numbers she has been practicing for the past 9 months.
New day, new site, new running goal... GO! 🏃🌄
#running, #sunrise #morning
It has been a while since I woke up before the sun to run but it felt great to get out early again even if my body was not fully awake yet….
One advantage to all of this camping lately is finding new and interesting spots to run in the morning…
Starting this week off right with a sunrise run on some trails…
Ran into a couple small obstacles this morning while feeling like I was running through people’s backyards 😁.
Update from back when I realized I did the following according to Strava 2.8 miles with the dog and 3.4 miles solo.
It has been a long time since Lainey Lou the Doodle has run with me and I think she regretted all those morning she scratched on the door after I left to run without her 🏃♂️….. 🐕.
Beautiful morning run today which is fitting as it is Earth Day today. Hope everyone can enjoy the nice weather today but physically distancing yourself from others 😁
Well hello there. Nothing to see here I am just passing by…
I decided to find some less traveled trails this afternoon for a snowy run. Had a good amount on the ground and it kept coming down the whole time.
Thanks for the motivation @fakereedwoodford.
Was a beautiful morning for a long run today. I enjoyed the signs along the trails telling people to well… Be smart 😁
Early morning meetings require even earlier morning runs.
The weather was too nice today for me to sit inside all day. So after my last work call late this afternoon I ventured out and what was going to be 3.1 became 6.2. Thanks family!
Thirty-Nine
It seems strange trying to look back at the last year when there is so much noise clouding the past couple of days/weeks/months.
I am sure this will be shorter than some of the previous years as I feel like I have a little bit of a mental block. In fact, I was thinking about what I was going to write on the morning of what I deemed 6.2 Birthday miles but I didn’t come up with much. That is not to say that nothing has happened over the past year. Last year I wanted to focus on Embracing things more and trying to cut out things that didn’t bring myself or my family joy. Overall, I feel like we kept moving in the right direction. We all continued to focus on things that brought us joy and in some cases started to let go of others.
One last hike in before the storm rolled in and we had to leave Sedona (Airport Loop Trail, May 2019, Sedona, Arizona)
One of the things as a family we did was a last-minute trip to Arizona last May. We were not planning it at the beginning of the year but as my wife and I started to talk about it it just seemed like a great time to go visit family and also be together as a family. The week turned out great as we spent half the time with our Arizona family and then the other half in Sedona exploring all the trails. In fact, what was only going to be a one night stay we extended it to two as everyone was having so much fun.
Running along the Skywalker trail in the early morning hours (May 2019, Skywalker Trail, Sedona, AZ)
I had a couple overseas work trips this past year and on these travels, I tried my hardest to embrace the surroundings and explore more. While traveling to China I made a point to see the Great Wall and I am happy that I braved the adventure as I found myself alone on the wall as I got there so early in the morning (thanks jet lag). Not all of my work trips had such a spectacular sight to see, however, I made the most of almost wherever I went mostly because my early morning or late afternoon runs would lead me to some interesting overlook or park.
Looking towards Tower 23 in the far distance at the Mutianyu Great Wall before the steep climb to come with no one in sight. (May 2019, Mutianyu Great Wall, Beijing China)
Speaking of running, over the past year I continued on with my running and eventually hit a goal that formulated in my mind as the year went on. In October I had hit a mark of running a 5K a day for 365 days. The timing of that seemed to be about perfect as I am looking back at the last 5 months since I don’t think I could have kept it up. However, my running goals have been focused more on distance now and not the consistency of every day running. Some other benefits of my odd running achievement were that I embraced the unknown and talked about my running adventure on a podcast called Off the Couch. It was something new to me and when they reached out I figured why not.
With everything that is going on in the world right now and the focus on physically distancing us and the bans on travel in place as well. I think continuing with the theme of Embracing seems fitting. We are in a very interesting time where my wife and I are both working from home and we have all of the kids with us every day for what might be the end of this school year. In addition, with no after school activities or playdates with friends, this is a great time to be together as a family and do things you always feel you never have time for. My wife and I were just commenting the other day how many weekends or nights do we really have nothing going on. So we are going to embrace this time together as a family and hope we all don’t want to kill each other in the end 😄.
Late night run was what was needed to clear my mind after all that’s been happening…
Today was supposed to be…
After getting back from a short run earlier this morning I am currently sitting in our kitchen drinking coffee and pondering what today was suppose to be. More specifically, I am sad thinking about what today was supposed to be.
However, all of those things have been canceled due to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Don’t get me wrong for public safety and health of all it was probably the right decision as in the grand picture of life it is not worth it. I am sad that all of my kids are missing the closure of their seasons where they have worked all year for not realizing that this past week of practice was the end.
Now don’t get me wrong, my wife and I are going to try to make the weekend as fun as we can in light of everything else that has been canceled as well. However, in the back of all of our minds will be that we should have been doing something else.
I am sure this is something that will be shared in the future with our kid’s kids and our kids will eventually share with their kid’s kids as the weekend where everything was canceled.
Till next time and we will try to enjoy the free weekend…
Found some new trails this past weekend when we were down in Rochester. They have some nice trails along the river and I didn’t run across much ice on the trail either 😁🏃♂️…
The warmer weather has been great except for early morning running where I come across sidewalks like this… 🏃♂️🧊 I might have to start running with skates 😂
