I've realized lately that I need to build more adventures into my life. As a perpetual non-planner this is much harder than it sounds. I have always been of the persuasion that the best adventures are spontaneous. Now that I don't have a car and I don't have partners in crime that can pick up and go at the drop of a hat, I have to actually PLAN (a four letter word). I want to do so many things this summer and if I just continue on my daily grind it will just fly by. Originally I wanted to summit 7 14'ers this summer. That was before I lost my mode of transportation and climbing partner. If I get two under my belt I'll be happy.
It's not just this summer though. There are so many things I want to do in general and I don't want time to just pass me by the way it has the last 8 months.
In order to better preserve my youth, health, and happiness I have decided that when my lease runs out in March I am going to pack up and hike the AT. It's something I've wanted to do for years and I can't think of a better time or opportunity than next spring. The timing is perfect. I want to go back to school next fall and if I start hiking at the beginning of April I'll be finished by the end of July/beginning of August. I'm really looking forward to leaving everything behind and living only on what I can carry in my own pack. I hate feeling weighed down. Lately I've just felt stuck. I have too many responsibilities and too little freedom. Maybe I should interpret that statement: I have too many bills and too little money. For some reason that translates into having too many obligations to frivolous things. I just want to leave it all behind. So hiking the AT is my solution.
For the first time in months I feel like I have something to look forward to. I have a finish line, a point in time when things will change. Deadlines are motivating to me. Some people don't work well under pressure; I only work well under pressure. I need that deadline or else possibilities are endless and I can behave as though I have all of eternity to accomplish anything.
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The whole world lies before me, waiting to be discovered
Life is a culmination of the choices I make. My choices are my own. I choose to live the meaningful and abundant life that I am meant for, and live it well.
A Great Adventure
The whole world lies before me, waiting to be discovered
Badassery
- Canyonlands Half Marathon, Moab, UT - March 21, 2009
- Chilly Cheeks Duathlon Series 2012/2014
- Colorado Half Marathon, Fort Collins, CO - May 5, 2010
- Copper Mountain Half Marathon - July 4, 2010
- Denver Marathon, Denver, CO - October 2008
- Denver Marathon, Denver, CO - October 2009
- Georgetown to Idaho Springs Half Marathon, Idaho Springs, CO - August 8, 2009 and August 13, 2012
- Imogene Pass Run, Ouray-Telluride, CO - September 12, 2009
- Las Vegas Marathon, Las Vegas, NE - December 7, 2008
- Leadville 100 Mile Trail Run (PACER) - August 14, 2010
- Park to Park 10-Miler, Denver, CO - September 7, 2009 and September 9, 2012
- Rock 'n Roll Marathon San Diego, CA - May 22, 2008
- Rocky Mountain Half Marathon, Denver, CO - June 14, 2009
- Summited Greys and Torreys Peaks, Colorado - August 31, 2008
- Summited Longs Peak, Colorado - June 2004
- Summited Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania - June 2005
- Summited Mounts Democrat, Lincoln, and Bross, Colorado - June 28, 2009 and July 4, 2012
- Summitted Mount Sherman, Colorado - July 18, 2009
- Summitted Mounts Belford and Oxford - July 1, 2012
- US Half Marathon at Copper Mountain Resort, CO - August 22, 2009
Words to Live By
"The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am." --George Sheehan, M.D.
"Every calling is great when greatly pursued." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.” - Woodrow T. Wilson
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Every calling is great when greatly pursued." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.” - Woodrow T. Wilson
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
2013 Book List
- The Signal and the Noise
- Plots Against the President
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Waging Heavy Peace
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