“For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning." (Little Gidding)” ― T.S. Eliot

 Here's to all the people who will be spending New Year's Eve at home in their pj's with their pets!

(ex. update end of year. walk 3.3 miles today, ytd walk 965.8 miles.  pm tm run 5.5 miles, ytd run 1514.2 miles.  total running and walking 2480 miles.  So I didn't run 2021 miles, but hit my secondary goal of 1500, and counting walking and running I exceeded 2021 by 459 miles.  Not too shabby. I'll take it)

 

 

“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

     Denver finally got some snow!  Of course, single digit temps and below zero wind chills came too, but that's okay.

The journey of two thousand twenty two miles starts with a single step. Today.

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

― Henry Moore

(January 1 ex. update,  zero walking, much too cold.   pm tm 6.3 miles, ytd run 6.3 miles.  On my way to 2022)

 (ex. update, dog walk 1.6 miles, very windy and cold.  pm jog 1.6 miles.   ytd walk 962.5 miles, ytd run 1508.7 miles.  Another streak saver day. )

It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again. Terry Pratchett

 (daily ex. update, walk dog 3 miles, chilly, ytd walk 960.9 miles,  jog 1.5 streak saver miles, ytd run 1507.1 miles)

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

 (daily ex. update, dog walk 0.7 miles, ytd walk 957.9 miles. pm jog 3.3 miles, ytd run 1505.6 miles)

oh, well. There's always next year.

 

(ex. update, walk dog 4 miles, ytd walk 957.2 miles. afternoon tm run 8 miles, ytd run 1502.3 miles.  Only 4 days left)

Be happy. People hate that,. Be so happy that you annoy the heck out of everyone.

 (daily ex., dog walk 3.2 miles, ytd walk 953.2 miles. pm jog 3.3 miles, ytd run 1494.3 miles)

 

(daily ex. update, walk dog 2.1 miles, ytd walk 950 miles, pm streak saver jog 1 mile, ytd run 1491 miles)

“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” ― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

 Merry Christmas!

(daily ex update, walk 1.1 mile, ytd walk 947.9 miles, pm run  1.5 miles, ytd miles run 1490)

This powerful remake of Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks” was made by artist Volker Maunz. It truly does speak a million words…

Occupy Democrats 

(daily ex.update, dog walk 3.1 miles, ytd walk 946.8 miles. pm jog 3.2 miles, ytd run 1488.5)

 

 (daily ex. update, dog walk 3.1 miles, ytd walk 943.7 miles. pm tm 4.5 miles, ytd run 1485.3 miles) 

 

          And Denver has issued high fire danger warnings for today. The first day of winter here will be warm, gusty, with 10% humidity.

(daily ex. update, walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 940.6 miles.  pm tm run 3.6 miles, ytd run 1480.8 miles)

Inspiration for today: NONE

 (daily ex. update, walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 939.1 miles, run 1 mile streak saver, ytd run 1477.2 miles)I

I'm still doing the 12 days of Fitness (see 12-14 blog). Today was day 8 and it is starting to kick my butt.

“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” ― P. J. O'Rourke

(daily ex. update, walk 3 miles, ytd walk 936.6 miles.  pm tm 10.1 miles, ytd run 1476.2 miles)

 (daily ex. update, walk 4.5 miles, ytd walk 933.6 miles.  pm jog 1.5 miles, ytd run 1466.1 miles)

 

(update daily ex., walk 4.5 miles, ytd walk 929.1 miles, afternoon tm 5.5 miles, ytd run 1464.6 miles)

 (daily ex.update, dog walk 3.2 miles, ytd walk 924.6 miles.  pm jog 3.1 miles, ytd run 1459.1 miles)

“All great achievements require time.” — Maya Angelou

 (gale force winds today!  daily ex update: walk 1 mile with dog, ytd walk 921.4 miles.  pm tm 3.5 mile run, ytd run 1456 miles)

12 days of fitness

     I received this fitness idea from runner Martinus Evans and started yesterday. Modifications are fine.

Day 1, 1 jumping jack

Day 2, 2 burpees plus 1 jumping jack

Day 3, 3 pushups plus 2 burpees 1 jumping jack

Day 4,  4 lunges plus 3 pushups, 2 burpees, 1 jumping jack

Day 5, 5 mountain climbers, 4 lunges 3 pushups, 2 burpees, 1 jumping jack

Day 6, 6 air squats, ............etc

Day 7, 7 high knees, ...........etc

Day 8, 8 spiderman planks........etc

Day 9, 9 crunches.......etc

Day 10, 10 supermans......etc

Day 11, 11 glute bridges....etc

Day 12, 12 ab bicycles.........etc.

     Already on day 2, I realize how hard this will be.  Burpees are not my friend. 

     I thought I might get a jumpstart on getting healthier next year by running the Resolution Run 5k on New Year's eve afternoon, but of course it is cancelled again this year due to covid19.  

(daily ex. update, walk 4 miles, ytd walk 920.4 miles.  pm tm run 4.5 miles, ytd run 1452.5 miles)

“It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: ‘Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!’” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

 Interesting!

(daily ex. update, walk 3 miles, ytd walk 916.4 miles.  pm tm run 3.5 miles, ytd run 1448 miles)

We think caged birds sing when indeed they cry.

 (daily ex update, walk 4 miles, ytd walk 913.4 miles.  pm tm run 5 miles, ytd run 1444.5 miles)

Dogs are family.

 

(daily ex update, walk 3.5 miles, ytd walk 909.4 miles.  pm tm run 5.6 miles, ytd run 1439.5 miles)

The ''allegory of the long spoons''

                                               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4lI8e33U2A

 

(we Finally got snow!  Only 1 inch but it is something.  Walk dog 0.7 miles, it was slippery out.  ytd walk 903.9 miles,  afternoon tm run 3.5 miles, ytd run 1433.9 miles)

(plus walked 2 miles on tm pm, ytd walk 905.9 miles)

They learn from what they see.

 (daily ex. update, walk 3.1 miles, ytd walk 902.2 miles.  2 runs=7.2 miles, ytd run 1430.4 miles)

 

(daily ex. update, walk 3 miles, ytd walk 900.1 miles.  pm tm 5 miles, ytd run 1423.2 miles. it was hard today)

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

 (daily ex. update, walk 3.1 miles, ytd walk 897.1 miles, pm jog 3.1 miles, ytd run 1418.2 miles)

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” -- Kurt Vonnegut

 (daily ex. update, dog walk 2.9 miles, ytd walk 894 miles, pm tm 3.2 miles, ytd run 1415.1 miles)

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.” ee cummings

 (daily ex. update, walk 1.6 miles, ytd walk 891.1 miles.  2 tm runs = 8.3 miles, ytd run 1411.9 miles.)

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.

 

Still searching for my lost mojo.....

(daily ex. , walk 4.3 miles, ytd walk 889.5 miles, pm jog 2 miles, ytd run 1403.6 miles)

Mama sloth and her babies

 (ex update, dog walk 2 miles, ytd walk 885.2 miles.  pm tm run 4.7 miles, ytd run 1401.6 miles.  Trying to get back into exercising again)

 (daily ex.,  jog 3.1 miles, ytd run 1396.9 miles)

“How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” ― Dr. Seuss

 (daily ex. update, dog walk 1.1 miles, ytd walk 883.2 miles.  run 1.5 miles, ytd run 1393.8 miles)