Alarm goes off. Ego says “You need more sleep”. I hit snooze. I wake up 10 minutes later. Ego says “You need more sleep”. I sit up. Ego says “Oh no you are too sore to run”. I slowly scoot to the edge of bed. Ego says “If you run…
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Once upon a time, in 1990, a beautiful superhero product seller followup to the amazing Batman movie released on my ten year old eyes. It was called the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT). It was firstly a comic book, which I now love but did not know of at the time.…
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On my slow ascent into ultra running territory again and ultimately on to running across the United States, I have decided to take a pause. I am doing a nice long water fast for the first time, after clearing a big hurdle in my mind recently. So, yes, a celebration…
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“…starts from beneath your feet”. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. Ch. 64 One line at a time. One step. More like a journey of 3000 miles, if I ever get there, coast to coast of the USA, running. It’s much shorter a journey to read to chapter 64 of…
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Just one of those damn ideas I get. How about I take my girl and her 3 boys out for a long hot trail run in Landahl Park outside Blue Springs, Missouri, to see what kind of shape they are in? Sure, they will love it for the first half,…
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Today, a friend (Jesse Smith) and I decided to take on a running bucket list item of mine: to run a 26.2 mile marathon on a treadmill. I have rarely had a hard time running a marathon since my first, but the fact of the matter is this: I have…
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“Got a good reason, for taking the easy way out Got a good reason, for taking the easy way out, now”. Beatles – ‘Day Tripper’ I got a good reason for taking the easy way out to the Everglades recently. Ernest Coe backcountry campsite in the Everglades. Pretty much the…
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I slept like a baby. When I first awoke, Weber was gone. I figured since the beans, he had to go number 2 somewhere. I was wrong. He actually went on a good run around the beach, doing what he does, taking a bunch of pictures, and feeling like we…
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At dawn, we both heard a funny scratching sound on the canoe. What it was, who knows. But we both couldn’t move to see. I made my auto scare the creature natural cricketing noise I created on my first camping trip, but it didn’t seem to hold of the scratching…
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As the sun rose, we took our sweet time as our clothes and gear dried. We ate, or rather, Weber ate and I drank my juice fast juice, and slowly yet surely we got all of our stuff organized and packed, ready to see what the day had for us…
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