Tag: Life

Reaching, Failing, Reaching Again

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I am a marathoner.

In less then three weeks, I’ll be running the New York City Marathon. This will be my 25th lifetime Marathon and my 10th New York.

I have always said that I will run forever.

Nothing has ever stopped me before. A torn Achilles? Nope. Stress factures? Nope. Other aches and pains and the like? Nope.

I just kept moving forward. (I did have surgery to repair the Achilles, but got right back at it afterword.)

Nothing ever stopped me… except… me.

Nothing ever stopped me, until I did. Or, better said, until I almost did.

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A Magazine Feature On… Me!

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A New Jersey magazine, Autumn Years, featured a nice article on me for their Fall 2023 issue.

You can read that article on-line here or click the link below.

https://digitaledition.pub/wc/autumn-years/autumn-years/fall-2023/

The article begins on page 44.

ENJOY!

Thinking of Roman Times…

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There was this idea trending a few weeks ago that men think about the Roman Empire on a daily basis. Many found this to be an amazing thing. Many wondered, aloud, “What could these men possibly be thinking about related to the Roman Empire? Why would people think about the Roman Empire today?”

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Making Work Into Fun

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Sometimes training for a marathon can be a drag. It’s challenging and often difficult to begin one’s day knowing that a long run is coming – an hour (often more) of strenuous exercise, out there on the streets alone, often hurting, sometimes painfully so. Marathon training is certainly not fun.

And yet, we go on day-after-day, year-after-year preparing for race-after-race, thinking, hoping , wondering, even decades removed from one’s prime, if this race, the next race, will be the best one ever. (“I wonder if I can set a P.R.?”)

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Run Wyckoff!

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A year ago, as I was running every single day for an entire calendar year, I thought it might be fun to also run every street in the town where I live – Wyckoff, New Jersey.

The only problem was I didn’t have an efficient or easy way to keep track of every single street and I figured this was something I would probably never do.

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Too Far?

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One of my favorite quotes comes from T.S. Eliot. It reads, “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

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Slowing Down? No Way!

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People ask me about retirement. What do you do now? Are you slowing down?

Slowing down?!

No way. I’m gearing up!

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DARE TO DO…

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WHAT YOU DARE TO DREAM

We all have dreams. We all have things we want to accomplish. We have big dreams and small dreams. Glorious dreams and simple ones.

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Always Striving To Be Better!

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I don’t know the last time I ever ran ten miles in under ninety minutes, but it was a long time ago.

Guys in their mid-fifties aren’t supposed to be this fast.

As I ran today, I zoomed past lightning. He couldn’t keep up.

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It feels great to work diligently toward a goal, any goal, and to achieve it. I didn’t think I’d ever be this fast again.

But here’s the thing about goals… once you get there, there’s always the next one. There is always a new mountain to climb – always something else to strive for.

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Running and Writing

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Writing and running.

Running and writing.

My mind is full of words and sayings that are helping to continue to push me ever forward…

My personality is such that I can’t help but set goals, push to reach them, and then dream of bigger and greatest things.

“They say I’m a dreamer, but I’m the only one…” (John Lennon)

“Good is the enemy of great.” (Jim Collins)

“Good enough, never is.” (Debbi Fields)

In just over fifteen weeks, I will be running the Pittsburgh Marathon (with my son Ryan).

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