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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…
Recently, my son advised me to watch the Netflix documentary, “The Game Changers.” I assumed it would be about some previously unrecognized pr…
How upset do you get when you lose or forget something?
“It’s a treat being a long distance runner.” — Alan Sillitoe, “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner”
“Just rain down over me, let it rain down, oh yeah” — Phil Collins
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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…
Recently, my son advised me to watch the Netflix documentary, “The Game Changers.” I assumed it would be about some previously unrecognized pr…
How upset do you get when you lose or forget something?
“It’s a treat being a long distance runner.” — Alan Sillitoe, “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner”
“Just rain down over me, let it rain down, oh yeah” — Phil Collins
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.”
By the time he became our 26th president in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt had established a reputation as an avid outdoorsman. Two years earlier, w…
“Exercise,” argued Dr. George Sheehan, “is maintained only because the alternative is worse.”
“Fill your paper,” wrote William Wordsworth, an 18th century English poet, “with the breathings of your heart.”
It's been said: "Happiness is not the belief that we don’t need to change; it’s the realization that we can."
