5 February - 11 February

Thought I'd do Mother Nature a little favor and leave my car at home and run to/from work, and the bitch repaid me by upping the wind, decreasing the temp, and dumping a ton of rain on me...both ways. On top of that, I finally made it home only to discover that I left my bedroom window open all day and my bed, blankets, stuffed giraffe (don't judge), everything was soaked from the rain [insert inappropriate joke about sleeping in the wet spot here]. Half a day later and I'm still freezing cold. 

Almost makes me wish Einstein had a bigger environmental footprint, just to pay her back a little.

Anyway, I was a bit lazy this week. I had hoped to increase by 3 - 4 miles over last week, but instead I skipped my long run and came up about 8 miles short of what I did last week.  That's not including the 1.5 mile, adrenaline fueled sprint through the city trying to catch a kid who AWOL'ed from the group home I work at, or the 20 feet I ran across the restaurant the other day to get to my pancakes quicker.  Overall, I'm feeling in better shape than I had thought I was, but I'm not gonna make any improvements if I keep skipping long runs.  Trying to finish this 50k without killing myself (or catching pneumonia)is by far the most outlandish thing I've ever done to try to impress a dude. 

An Open Letter to the Fastest Jogger at the Park

This has been going around the hash forums for awhile, but I didn't bother to read it until today.  Golden Gate Park is full of douches like this.

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-the-fastest-jogger-at-the-park

One More Reason to Wish You Were Me

This is my plan for my birthday this year, which is not until September so don't worry, you have plenty of time to get my present in the mail. Thinking of tacking on a day or two for other as-yet-to-be-named adventures, or possibly a stop in Yosemite for a few days of Yosemiteness.  Haven't had an adventure in ages, and I'm feeling it.  Climbing the walls, brain all muddled with ridiculous 1st world problems. Could really use a few nights in a tent with some big trees and a fire and a 12 pack of PBR.

Sat - drive to Flagstaff.

Sun AM - hike Humphreys Peak

Sun PM - drive to/camp at Hualapai Hilltop trailhead

Mon, Tues, Wed - explore Havasu Canyon, all the way to the Colorado.

Wed - Head to Springdale, UT. Through Vegas, hitting the Double Down Saloon and Dino's. Dinner at the Flying Monkey.

Thurs - Zion Subway

Fri - Bryce Canyon Under the Rim Trail

Sat, Sun - Moab

I'm doing this.  The 50k - my first one.  Stop laughing.  I really am.  Been training and everything.

http://www.iceagetrail50.com/site/

One is the Loneliest Number...

...because there is nothing outside of it.

If you add up everything with everything else, all of whatever exists in all of existence, it's 1.  The sum of everything.

When we want to explain that something is smaller, we uses pieces, or decimals, to describe it.  Add them all up, and it's always 1.

So the bigger a number seems, the smaller a thing gets.

I think about this when I am in a million pieces, as I am now.  They will all fit back together, and I will be 1.

Tell Them I Walk Off Into the Woods to Sing.

Your poem for the day.  As always, reprinted without permission.

"Tell them I'm struggling to sing with angels who hint at it in
black words printed on old paper gold edged by time.
Tell them I wrestle the mirror every morning.
Tell them I sit here invisible in space, nose running, coffee cold,
& bitter.
Tell them I tell them everything and everything is never enough.
Tell them I'm davening & voices rise up from within to startle children.
Tell them I walk off into the woods to sing.
Tell them I sing loudest next to waterfalls.
Tell them the books get fewer, words go deeper, some take months to get through.
Tell them there are months when it's all perfect; above
'n' below, it's perfect, even in moments in between where
Sparks in space (terrible, beautiful sparks in space)
are merely metaphors for the void between
one pore and another."
~D.M.

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