“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.