1/2 Marathon

I did it!

I followed a fairly strict diet leading up to the event, and stayed off the sauce. I focused on what my pace should be. I set that jogging pace early on, I jogged to the 5k mark at 33 minutes, and walked and then jogged at that pace again. Every time I jogged I used that jogging pace. No injuries! No doctor visits! Just the regular soreness. I finished in 2:44:28. Not good, but not bad either considering I really hadn't trained. This was a New Year's Resolution that I made with OJ when we were on a drunken pub crawl back to the house New Year's Day. I think it started at Bone Daddy's and I committed at Hooter's......

1/2 marathon....

Sunday is the big day! Months of steadfast un-preparing will culminate on Sunday in San Antonio. The Rock-n-Roll half marathon, which I signed up for in February, will be my "20" come Sunday. It will be interesting to see how I do. I'm going to take it really easy, and slow jog, then walk, then slow jog, then walk, then slow jog some more, then walk some more. I am really hoping that it doesn't send me to the doctor again. No worries. After Sunday, I don't have any intention of such pursuing such trivial pursuits. So wish me a broken ankle, I need all the stage luck I can get.

I thought I had some creativity brewing

Close! Oh well. Maybe next time.

Contempaltions of life

So life can pass you by, life can be rewarding, life can surprise you, life can suck, you can live a life unfulfilled, you can let mean people grind you down, you can keep yourself around good, caring people, and you can lock yourself out from everything.

I prefer to live a life less ordinary.

What does that mean? It means doing things that push the envelope of comfort. It means giving up a secure job with excellent benefits, selling a comfortable house, leaving a nice place to live, finding homes for two good dogs, and distancing myself from wonderful friends.

Other people have pushed the envelope. Notable people like Genghis Khan, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Joan of Arc, Martin Luther, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Benjamin Franklin, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Sacagawea for that matter, Daniel Boone, and so on. Its not like I'm the first one. It only feels that way. What drove these great people to push their envelope? Surely they could have lived their days comfortable and unrecognized by the history books. I'm not looking to make history, but a challenge excites me. I can recognize the restlessness inside of me, but the thought of leaving everything behind is troubling. I know I need to push myself, regardless of the outcome, just for the sake of pushing. Pushing is good, even the resultant bad times are a good experience. As strange as that sounds.....


All of this leads to a new strange life in California. What effects will the blue state have on me? Even now, pictures of her cause my heart to skip a beat, race, and I start breathing hard. It's comfortable here, but the thought of greener pastures beckons. That woman, wonderful Debby, evokes a healthy passion for a life less ordinary.

I will never be HERE again,
JR