I was chatting with my dad on the phone the other day and casually mentioned that I never wanted to do a half marathon again. He quickly interjected, "Never say never...you know what happened to your mother and I when we said 'never.'" All in a moment's notice, the stories came flooding back. Dad - ...
Category: Running
The Adventures of El Salvador – day 5
The adventures of El Salvador - day 5 Greetings from El Salvador! We have another fantastic day almost behind us. Because the community finished the first ditch/water project yesterday, we were moved to another area where there were doing the same thing. Before we started working, we stumbled upon a truck that was stuck. Being ...
Running After the Race
The past two weeks have been interesting with running. Coming off of the push to the Chicago half marathon, I wasn't sure how I felt about running. But, being the tenacious person that I am, I decided to give it another go. Then I realized how freeing it is to run without the burden of ...
BHAGS and other things…
Back when I was a student at ORU, I learned the principle of the Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG). In the past, my BHAGs have been things such as: Graduating from high school and college, getting my private pilot's license, and getting a job after college. They were all inevitable - Things that were going ...