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“All our life is but a mass of habits.” ~William James
“I like to have yogurt and granola; the combination of carbs and protein helps me recover after a long and tiring workout.” Troy Polamalu, Pit…
“Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.” ~ Unknown
“Competition sparks excellence.” — Lorne Greene
I walked 9,172 steps one day last week. I didn’t get showered with confetti or get checked off for meeting the goal set by my watch. A goal, m…
“Honest sweat has no odor.” — George Sheehan, M.D., The Running Doctor
After a four-mile trail run on a section off the Soco Gap access on the Mountains to Sea Trail (MST) recently, my smart watch told me the reco…
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“All our life is but a mass of habits.” ~William James
“I like to have yogurt and granola; the combination of carbs and protein helps me recover after a long and tiring workout.” Troy Polamalu, Pit…
“Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.” ~ Unknown
“Competition sparks excellence.” — Lorne Greene
I walked 9,172 steps one day last week. I didn’t get showered with confetti or get checked off for meeting the goal set by my watch. A goal, m…
“Honest sweat has no odor.” — George Sheehan, M.D., The Running Doctor
After a four-mile trail run on a section off the Soco Gap access on the Mountains to Sea Trail (MST) recently, my smart watch told me the reco…
In late June, I flew to Minnesota to attend a celebration of life for the wife of a dear friend.
This morning I ran the Mountains to Sea Trail (MST) from Licklog Gap to Grassy Ridge Mine (off the Blue Ridge Parkway between mile markers 446…
“There is no health without mental health.”
“You don’t stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running,” Christopher McDougall.
How have your New Year's resolutions gone so far this year? Yeah, me, too. Why not give them a re-do during the longest time of the year when …
“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.” Leonardo da Vinci
“If there is magic on this planet,” said the scientist Loren Eiseley, “it is contained in water.”
“It’s not stress that kills us; it is our reaction to it.” — Hans Selye
My earliest memory of coffee is watching my father drink it early on cold Minnesota mornings. I saw steam rising from his hot cup as he read t…
“I’ll sleep when I’m dead,” said the now dead singer Warren Zavon.
On all my runs at Lake Junaluska I see walkers. When I run at a regular time of day, be that 5 or 6 a.m. or 8:30 a.m., I recognize the consist…
“The gods punish us in two ways,” Oscar Wilde wrote, “first, they don’t give us what we want, then they do.”
Someone once said, “Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and supper like a pauper.”
“We can only control how we react and respond,” said Alex Smith about his recovery, “and that simple idea helped me survive.”
