“The path isn't a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.” ― Barry H. Gillespie

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.1 miles, ytd walk 188.3 miles.  pm jog 1.5 miles, ytd run 412.2 miles)

“No one is you and that is your biggest power.” ― Dave Grohl

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 186.2 miles.  pm tm run 3.2 miles, ytd run 410.7 miles)

“Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.” -- Sitting Bull

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.7 miles on a damp gray day, ytd walk 184.7 miles.  pm tm run 5.5 very slow miles, ytd run 407.5 miles)

“Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying.” ― Terry Pratchett

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.8 miles, ytd walk 183 miles.  pm jog 1.3 miles, ytd run 402 miles)

We’re all just walking each other home .. ~ Ram Dass ~

      This is probably my favorite quote ever.

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.1 mile, ytd walk 181.2 miles.  afternoon tm 12.5 miles long run, ytd run 400.7 miles)

“Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”

― Alexandre Dumas-fils

(daily ex. update, morning walk 3.7 miles, ytd walk 180.1 miles.  pm tm run 6.5 miles, ytd run 388.2 miles)

“Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.” ― Tim Fargo

      Beautiful spring weather today.  Went up a 200 step mini incline in Castle Rock, which was hard.  Met 3 whipcracking enthusiasts who were practicing and were willing to share their time and expertise.  Who knew that whipcracking was a thing! Not me.   Now I may have to go back to watch the Indiana Jones movies.  They had an actual whip used in one of the movies, by a stunt person of course. 

     The park had a climbing wall, 10 zip-lines, and a 4 story rope adventure course. It was an amazing place. Not that I will ever do those things.....maybe the roped adventure course but only the lower 2 levels.  I cannot do heights.

(daily ex. update, walk 5.5 miles, ytd walk 176.4 miles.  pm tm run 4.5 miles, ytd run 381.7 miles.  I should be in better shape than I am, climbing those 200 steps was hard.) 

    

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

 Barbara Tuchman

Off to read:

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

(daily ex. update, walk 1.9 miles, ytd walk 170.9 miles.  afternoon tm jog, 4.2 miles, ytd run 377.2 miles)

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

 

“...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”

― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 169 miles.  afternoon tm run 3.7 miles, ytd run 373 miles)

“This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.” ― Maya Angelou

 

(daily ex. update, another chilly day, morning dog walk 1 mile, ytd walk 166.5 miles.  afternoon tm run 5 miles, ytd run 369.3 miles)

“People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.” ― Terry Pratchett, Mort

 (daily ex. update, damp cold day, morning dog walk 1 mile, ytd walk 165.5 miles, afternoon slow tm run 3.1 miles, ytd run 364.3 miles)

Dropping Keys | Hafiz

 the small man

builds cages for everyone
he
knows.
While the sage,
who has to duck his head
when the moon is low,
keeps dropping keys all night long
for the
beautiful
rowdy
prisoners.

Happy first day of spring!

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2 miles, ytd walk 164.5 miles.  afternoon t.m. long run 13.7 miles, ytd run 361.2 miles.)

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.” ― Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words

 (daily ex. update, morning walk 3.3 miles, ytd walk 162.5 miles.  pm streak saver 1 mile run, ytd run 347.5 miles)

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” ― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

 “Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.” – Lemony Snicket

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.1 mile, ytd walk 159.2 miles.  pm tm run 5.5 miles, ytd run 346.5 miles)

May the road rise up to meet you

 May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

(snow day, pm jog 3.3 miles, ytd run 341 miles)

“Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.” — George Sand

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.8 miles, ytd walk 158.1 miles.  afternoon tm run 3.5 miles, ytd run 337.7 miles.  really tired today, should have run intervals but will put off for a day or two. a storm is coming in tonight)

“Patience is not passive, on the contrary, it is concentrated strength.” ― Bruce Lee

Patience, Grasshopper!

(daily ex. update, morning walk 1.5 miles and jog 2.8 miles with dog, pm tm run 3.4 miles, ytd walk 156.3 miles. ytd run 334.2 miles)

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.” – Oscar Wilde

 (daily ex update, walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 154.8 miles. morning jog 1 mile, pm tm 3.5 miles ytd run 328 miles)

“No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.” ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 152.3 miles.  afternoon tm long run 11 miles, ytd run 322.5 miles)

 (daily ex. update, walk 4.5 miles, ytd walk 149.8 miles.  afternoon tm run 5 miles, ytd run 311.5 miles)

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” ― George Carlin

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles and 1 mile chilly jog with dog, pm tm run 3.6 miles, ytd walk 145 miles, ytd run 306.5 miles)

 

(daily ex. update, very cold morning dog walk 1mile plus pm tm walk .5 miles, ytd walk 142.8 miles.  pm tm run 3.5 miles, ytd run 301.9 miles) 

“If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.” ― Kathrine Switzer, 26.2: Marathon Stories

 “I’m older now but still running against the wind.”

— Bob Seger

     I just read a recent study about international participation in marathons. The highest growth in participation in 2015 was in the age group 90-99 at 41.36 %.  The age group 90-99 also had the highest overall growth in participation from 2014-2017 with an increase of 34.74%.  

     That is incredible!  Go seniors.  It gives me so much hope.

(daily exercise update, no walk due to weather, ytd walk 141.3 miles.  pm tm tempo run 4.5 miles, ytd run 298.4 miles)

Happy International Women's Day

 Here's to strong women.

May we know them.

May we be them.

May we raise them.

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 141.3 miles, pm tm 4.5 miles, ytd  293.9 miles)

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” – Oscar Wilde

 (daily ex. update, morning slushy dog walk of 1 mile. ytd walk 138.8 miles.  pm slow treadmill recovery jog, of 5 miles, ytd run 289.4 miles)

Time passes irrevocably. Virgil.

 (daily exercise, snow day, morning dog walk 0.7 miles, ytd walk 137.8 miles.  afternoon tm long run 11.3 miles, ytd run 284.4 miles.)

If you listen to your body when it whispers you wont have to hear it scream.

 (daily ex. update, morning walk 3.2 miles, ytd walk 137.1 miles.  pm tm run, ytd run 273.1 miles)

This never gets old.

 

                                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.2 miles, ytd walk 133.9 miles.  pm tm 3.1 miles, ytd run 269.4 miles)

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Living.” ― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

 (daily ex. update, walk 2 miles, ytd walk 131.7 miles. pm tm 5.1 miles, ytd run 266.3 miles)

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life. - Terry Pratchett,

 (daily ex. update, dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 129.7 miles.  pm streak saver jog 1.6 miles, ytd run 261.2 miles)

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." Mike Tyson

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3 miles, ytd walk 127.2 miles.  pm tm run 4.7 miles, ytd run 259.6 miles)