(ex. update, morning walk with my dog 2.5 miles, ytd walk 225.5 miles.  PM tm 5.6 miles, ytd miles run 316.9 miles.

Beverly Cleary April 12, 1916 to March 25, 2021

 

(daily ex. update, walk 1 mile with dog in a.m., ytd walk 223 miles.  PM tm 3.1 miles, ytd run 311.3 miles. Exercise when you don't want to as it is when you need it the most.)

 “No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.”

— Seneca the Younger

   daily ex update, morning dog walk 3 miles, ytd walk 222 miles.  pm tm jog 6.5 miles, ytd run 308.2 miles.  

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

 

(daily ex. update, morning walk 3.5 miles with my dog, ytd walk 219 miles.  PM tm 3.6 miles, ytd run 301.7 miles.)

Just remembering. That's my job....I am the rememberer.

 

                                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__VQX2Xn7tI

     

(daily ex. update, 2 morning walks=5 miles, ytd walk 215.5 miles.  2 treadmill runs totaling 5.3 miles, ytd run 298.1 miles.  Still 3 miles behind schedule but catching up.)

Georgia.....

 

(daily ex. update, morning walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 210.5 miles.  PM TM 3.1 miles, ytd run 292.8 miles.   Tired today, probably from last night's 2nd covid vaccine shot, but I did it.)

  “I just want to control what I can control,” he says. “I want to get as fit as I can and stay healthy. Anything’s possible: top 10, top 5, I don’t know. At the end of the day, that’s why we have races.”

American Olympian, Abdi Abdirahman

A good goal....to control what I can, to get as fit as I can, and to stay healthy!  I'm getting covid vaccine shot #2 tonight.

(Daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.3 miles, ytd walk 209 miles.  Early afternoon tm run 5.2 miles, ytd run 289.7 miles.  Trying to get a jumpstart on tomorrow in case I don't feel great, but that means the vaccine is working, right!)

 (daily ex. update, a.m. walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 205.7 miles.  PM jog 1.7 miles, ytd run 284.5 miles.)

 “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

—Elisabeth Kübler Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and author of On Death and Dying

(daily ex. update, morning walk with my dog 3 miles, ytd walk 204.2 miles.  PM TM run 4.6 miles, ytd run 282.8 miles.)

 

(daily ex. update, scooped snow 30 minutes.  Morning dog walk 1.2 miles.  Pm jog 1.6 miles.  Ytd walk 201.2 miles.  Ytd run 278.2 miles.  Got all my tax info gathered and dropped off at CPA, that is a relief.)

 

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 200 miles.  PM tm 4.6 miles, ytd run 276.6 miles.  Snowing again tonight.)

 (ex. update, tm run 1 streak saver mile, ytd run 272 miles.  Morning walk 3.5 miles, ytd walk 197.5 miles)

 

(daily ex. update, AM walk with dog 2 miles, ytd walk 194 miles.  Afternoon tm run 4.2 miles, ytd run 271 miles.  Still 3 miles behind schedule.)

 

(ex. update, morning dog walk 3.5 miles.  Afternoon TM 5 miles.  YTD walk 192 miles, YTD run 266.8 miles.  Now only 4 miles behind schedule to run/walk 2021 miles in 2021)

 

(daily ex. update, run tm 3.7 miles, ytd 261.8 miles run.  Am walk 1.5 miles with dog, pm tm walk 3.5 miles while reading a book, procrastinating from starting my taxes, ytd walk 188.5 miles.  Still 6 miles behind run/walk 2021 miles in 2021 schedule)

Heroism.

 RIP to the legend Dick Hoyt

He was such an inspiration. An incredible father, and man. Team Hoyt is the epitome of unconditional love

Dick first pushed his son Rick, who is a quadriplegic with cerebral palsy, in the Boston Marathon in 1980. Team Hoyt began in 1977 when Rick asked his father if they could run in a race together to benefit a lacrosse player at his school who had become paralyzed. He wanted to prove that life went on no matter your disability. Dick Hoyt, a retired Lieutenant Colonel was not a runner and was 36 years old. After their first race Rick said, "Dad, when I’m running, it feels like I’m not handicapped." After their initial 5 mile run, Dick began running every day with a bag of cement in the wheelchair because Rick was at school and studying, unable to train with him.

As of March 2016, the Hoyts had competed in 1,130 endurance events, including 72 marathons and six Ironman triathlons. He was 80 years old.

(post shared from FB)

 (daily ex. update, still tired from yesterday, walk dog 1 icy mile, ytd walk 183.5 miles.  TM run 3.1 miles, ytd run 258.1 miles.   8.5 miles behind schedule.  EHH Good enough)

 (daily ex. update.  Shoveled snow for 2.5 hours!  The city of Denver officially got 27.1 inches, I think we may have gotten more here in the foothills. I did run 2.5 miles on the treadmill to maintain my streak.  Run ytd 255 miles.  No walking, walk ytd still 182.5 miles.  Now 7 miles short of schedule.  Too bad snow shoveling doesn't convert to miles walked.  My garmin watch didn't even hardly register additional steps. RSD 2383)

 

     Exercise update for today....snowmageddon outside, 2 feet of snow so far and still snowing hard and blowing.  I'll deal with it tomorrow. So treadmill it was, 9.5 miles while watching the 2017 movie Papillon.  Ytd run 252.5 miles.  zero walking, ytd walk 182.5 miles.  Now only 3 miles behind schedule. 

 

(daily ex. update, am tm run 1.1 miles, ytd run 243 miles.  am walk 3.2 miles, ytd walk 182.5 miles.  Snowing,  Major storm. Clocks moved ahead)

"Bigfoot is sometimes confused with Sasquatch. Yeti never complains."

 

(daily ex. update, walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 179.3 miles.  PM tm 5 miles, ytd run 241.9 miles. 5 miles under goal)

 

(daily ex. update, morning walk 3.5 miles with dog, ytd walk 177.8 miles.  Pm tm 3 miles, ytd run 236.9 miles.  Possibly 4-5 feet of snow coming to Denver this weekend.)

 

(daily ex. update, walk 3 miles with dog in am, ytd walk 174.3 miles.  Pm jog 1.5 miles, ytd 233.9 miles run.)

“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” ― Helen Keller

 “We were together. I forget the rest.”  Walt Whitman

(daily ex. update, morning jog with dog 3.1 miles, pm tm run 4 miles....ytd run 232.4 miles.  Morning walk 1 mile, ytd walk 171.3 miles.  Now only 5 miles behind schedule)

 (daily ex. update, pm tm 3.5 miles, ytd run 225.3 miles.  Morning dog walk 3 miles plus pm cooldown walk of 1 mile after tm, ytd walk 170.3 miles)

 

     Charleigh and I ran the That Dam Run Virtual 5k.  We ran 3.1, walked 2 miles, and she puked.  She earned the medal.

(daily ex. update, run 3.1 miles, ytd run 221.8 miles.  Walk 2 miles, ytd walk 166.3 miles.  8 miles behind schedule)

 

(daily ex. update, tm 1.5 miles run, ytd  run 218.7 miles.  Morning walks, 4 miles, ytd walk 164.3 miles.)

 

(ex. update, 2.5 mile dog walk in am, ytd walk 160.3 miles.  PM jog 1.5 miles, ytd 217.2 miles.  Really tired and dragging today.)

      1st covid vaccine done this evening.

(ex. update, walk 2.3 miles, ytd walk 157.8 miles.  TM am 4.2 miles, ytd run 215.7 miles.  Only 5 miles behind where I want to be)

 

(daily ex. update, run 3.1 miles, am, 2.7 miles tm pm, ytd run 211.5 miles.  Walk am 1.5 miles, pm 1 mile, ytd walk 155.5 miles.)

 

 (ex update, dog walk 3.5 miles in am, ytd walk 153 miles.  Pm jog 3.1 miles, ytd run 205.7 miles. )

 

(daily ex. update, walk 5 miles, ytd 149.5 miles.  PM tm run 6.2 miles, ytd 202.6 miles.)