Perfect!

 

(daily ex update, jog with dog 3.1 miles, ytd 104 miles.  Walk 1.2 miles to warm up and cool down, ytd walk 77.8 miles.  So many people out today, it was difficult to stay socially distanced so we came home.)

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going" ~ Jim Ryun

      I'm working on forming better habits and consistency despite covid.

(daily ex. update, 2 walks=5.2 miles, ytd walk 76.6 miles. PM TM jog 3.1 miles, ytd 100.9 miles.)

It works for me

 (daily ex update, pm streak saver jog 1.2 miles, ytd 97.8 miles.  Morning dog walk 3.1 miles, ytd walk 71.4 miles.)

Love is....

 And there is a full moon tonight.

(daily ex update, pm slow jog 3.1 miles, ytd 96.6 miles.  Morning dog walk 3.2 miles, ytd 68.3 miles.)

 

(Daily ex. update, pm jog 3.1 miles, ytd run 93.5 miles.  Morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 65.1 miles.  30 min. of scooping snow.)

I qualify.... Do you?

 

(daily ex. update, pm slow jog 2.5 miles, ytd 90.4 miles.  Morning icy walk with my dog, 1.1 mile, ytd walked 62.6 miles.  Scoop snow 30 min.)

      I'm working on this since Procrastination is my middle name.

(ex. update, pm tm 3.5 miles, ytd run 87.9 miles.  Morning walk 4 miles with my dog, ytd walk 61.5 miles)

 

(daily ex. update, pm tm 2.3 miles, ytd run 84.4 miles.  Morning walk 3 miles, ytd walk 57.5 miles)

Every day

(daily ex update, pm tm 3.1 miles, ytd 82.1 miles run.  Morning walk 4 miles, ytd walk 54.5 miles. RSD 2332) 

Find your tribe

 

(daily ex. update, pm tm 4.1 miles, ytd run 79 miles.  Morning dog walk 3 miles, ytd walk 50.5 miles.. 129.5 mile run + walk total toward my 2021 annual goal)

There are a million ways to say I love you....

Put your seat belt on.

Watch your step.

Get some rest.

You just have to listen.

(daily ex. update, pm tm run 3.5 miles, ytd run 74.9 miles.  Morning walk with dog 2.5 miles, ytd walk 47.5 miles.)

Congressman John Lewis:

 Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Do not become bitter or hostile. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. We will find a way to make a way out of no way.

Today was a hopeful day.

(daily ex update, pm tm run 5 miles, ytd 71.4 miles. Morning dog walk 3.5 miles, ytd walk 45 miles. Gorgeous day out. I'm 4 miles behind where I should be in the 2021 challenge, but the year is young)

Motivation for today.....

 “Anxiety is fear about what may happen in the future, and it occurs only when the mind is imagining what the future may bring. But when your attention is on the here and now, the actions which need to be done in the present have their best chance of being successfully accomplished, and as a result the future will become the best possible present.”

— W. Timothy Gallwey

                       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc1ta1UMGeo

(daily ex. update, pm jog 1.2 miles, ytd 66.4 miles.  Morning walk 2 miles, ytd walk 41.5 miles. Tired today so did the minimum)

I needed to see this today.

(Daily ex. update, p.m. t.m. run 3.2 miles, ytd run 65.2 miles.  Morning very chilly walk 1 mile, ytd walk 39.5 miles. )

 

“The mind that opens up to a new idea never returns to its original size.” – Albert Einstein.

 

(daily ex update, run 3.1 a.m., ytd 62 miles run. Morning walk 2 miles with dog and to warm up and cool down from run, ytd run 38.5 miles.  Run + walk total=100.5 miles towards 2021 mile goal.)

Everyone wants to win but not everyone wants to prepare to win.

 

“The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.Everyone wants to win but not everyone wants to prepare to win. preparing to win is where the determination that you will win, is made. Once the game or test or project is underway, it is too late to prepare to win. The actual game, test or project is just the end of a long process of getting ready, in which the outcome was really determined. So if you want to win, you must want to prepare to win. Once you prepare to win, winning is almost anti climatic." - Bobby Knight”

     I read this earlier this week and found it worth sharing. Consistency, always my weak point, but I am working on it.

(daily ex. update, tm streak saver half hour run 2.5 miles, ytd 58.9 miles.  Morning walk 5 miles with my dog and with walk group, ytd walk 36.5 miles.  On track for 2021 miles in 2021)

Your earworm for the day.....LOL

 

     Maybe you have to be of a certain age to really appreciate this...

(daily ex. update, 2.5 tm miles pm, ytd run 56.4 miles.  Morning 2 mile dog walk, ytd walk 31.5 miles.)

 

(daily ex update, pm tm 3.2 mile hill workout, ytd run 53.9 miles.  Morning chilly dog walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 29.5 miles)

     Listening to Jim Jordan and Lauren Boebert, among other republican seditionists.....

(daily ex. update, tm pm 3.1 miles, ytd 50.7 miles.  Morning walk 1 mile, ytd walk 28 miles)

Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences.

 (daily ex. update, pm tm run 5.2 miles, ytd 47.6 miles.  Morning dog walk 3 miles, ytd walk 27 miles.)

This video will make your day better.

      From 1985

                                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AjkUyX0rVw

     And this from 2010

                                           https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glny4jSciVI

(daily ex update, pm tm run 3.5 miles, ytd run 42.4 miles.  Morning walk 3.2 miles with dog, ytd walk 24 miles.  Run/walk total 66.4 miles toward 2021 mile annual goal)

 

(daily ex update, pm tm 6.5 miles, ytd 38.9 miles run.  Morning dog walk 1.1 miles, icy out, ytd walk 20.8 miles)

 

(daily ex update, jog 1 miles streak saver, ytd 32.4 miles.  Morning dog walk 1.5 miles, ytd 19.7 miles)

We have obligations

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(daily ex. update, pm tm run 3.3 miles, ytd run 31.4 miles.  Morning dog walk 3.2 miles, ytd walk 18.2 miles)

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” ― Lao Tzu

    This applies to countries as well as individuals.

(daily ex. update, pm tm 4.1 miles, ytd run 28.1 miles.  Morning dog walk 2 chilly miles, ytd walk 15 miles.  Run/walk total 43.1 miles.)

I have no words. Today was immensely sad and infuriating.

 

(daily ex. update, pm jog 3.1 miles, ytd run 24 miles.  morning walk 3.5 miles, ytd walk 13 miles. Run and walk total this year=24 miles)

But I have a dog......we stop A LOT!

 

(daily ex. update, pm tm run 5 miles, ytd run 20.9 miles. Morning walk 2 miles, ytd walk 9.5 miles)

If you have a body, you are an athlete” ― William J. Bowerman

     I've probably quoted this here before, but I re-read it today and found it worth re-sharing!  It was hard to run today, (of course I find it hard to run every day), but then I met and talked to a woman ambulating with her walker to get in her daily miles. No complaints from me any more.  And she is definitely an athlete!

(daily ex.  run 5.1 miles jog with dog, ytd run 15.9 miles.  Walk 0.8 miles to warm up and cool down, walk ytd 7.5 miles)

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” ― Meister Eckhart

 

(daily ex. update,  morning run 3.6 miles, ytd run 10.8 miles.  1 mile warm up and cool down walk, ytd walk 6.7 miles.  Tired legs today. I'm getting a slow start to this year's running, but it is a start)

Be healthy

      

     And a very happy birthday to my Dad who turned 94 today!

(daily ex. update, pm tm run 5 miles, ytd run 7.2 miles.  Morning walk 4.2 miles, ytd walk 5.7 miles.)

Me, most days

 

“I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years”

― Henry Moore

     Time to break out the 2021 calendars.

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“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”

― Alfred Lord Tennyson

     Wishing you a happier 2021 than 2020.  I am having trouble setting resolutions and goals.  All I've come up with is to keep on keeping on, trying to do a little bit better.  It is still hard to do any planning with the planet in such disarray. I will keep on. I hope to get closer to running 2021 miles in 2021, and will continue streaking.

     Today pm run 2.2 miles, chilly morning dog walk 1.5 miles.  It is a start.