Me: I need to meditate and get to cleaning.

Also me: Stretch... Vacay... Coffee... comfy chair... It can wait.

@Vozy Thinking of you, dear brother.

@feloneouscat To be excellent means to present excellence. What is excellence in this regard? What is the excellence that they embodied?

Radical acceptance, loving friendship, kindness, curiosity. To "Be excellent" is to aspire not only to your best self but to encourage others to aspire as well.

To party on means to persist. To not give up on the dawn light that is our dreams. To seek relentlessly the better day and the higher path.

Today was an exercise in will. I did not feel like it, but once I got into my run everything smoothed out.

What we feel is not immutable. Feelings are something we experience but they don’t define us. The choices that we make about those feelings will.

While I do practice mindfulness lately I’ve been asking myself, what will I think about the choices I’m making now, tomorrow ? It’s been a powerful tool!

I had a rough week for my disciplines and routines, but that's all the more reason to drill down and push harder. There is no stopping; there is only forward or back.

Onward toward the dawn!

Good morning groovy souls!

It has been a wonderful time with @wolfwoman She is a kind and wonderful soul. Last night her daughter made an incredible dinner.

My time here has been a blessing.

Today I am on my way home. TS Debby has given us a blustery stormy day, but my flight remains on time and things are looking pretty locked in!

Tomorrow is my 10th anniversary and I'll be there just in time.

Onward, toward the dawn!

Bunny go!

Good morning groovy souls! Another day another 10k! It’s like training in a dryer vent out there!

Pushing hard on those hills. I’m building up to step things up at the gym when I return home!

Hills are evil and fun!

#morningrun

My life is starting to feel like Quantum Leap.

Hoping my next flight... is my flight home! :P

Gods above I have missed this place.

#Politics #Trump

So Watching the Mango Autocrat slowly self destruct is giving me some hope, and is it me, or does JD Vance seem like a dollar tree version of Al Borland from Home Improvement?

Too many snacks...

We should have a release date soon! I'm eating ALL the snacks!

Celebration time!

Good morning groovy souls!

The hardest battles are within the mind. Today I woke up and did not want to run, I wanted to be lazy

I took a deep breath, went to the gym, and did what I do everyday, six days a week.

About 40 minutes in, I was still feeling like I wanted to stop, so I played the same game I did with myself on the trail. "Go another mile, see how you feel."

Will is infinite, it's our patience that wears thin. Persistence trains that patience, just like weights trains the body.

I just booked my flight home! @wolfwoman is picking me up a week from Thursday!

Good morning groovy souls!

I’m improving by the day and by the week at the gym. I’m pushing to 8 miles each day and this morning I ran my fastest single mile ever, fastest 5k and fastest 10k. I went all out. My last mile was timed at 8:19 and my overall pace was sub 9.

I’m at a level I’ve never been before and it’s bewildering. Suddenly I’m here and yeah I’m tired and there’s a lot going on in my life but I’m reaching new heights. Determination and discipline yields results.

Hello Groovy souls!

I'm still alive but my Gods have I been working hard. I've been pulling up to 20 hour days. I'm taking my buddy to her court dates, keeping house, assisting in her recovery, taking her to appointments, doing the shopping.

I'm getting time in the morning to meditate and workout, but even that is requiring a lot of focus and planning to achieve.

I'm almost done though and I'm ok. This mission, as I call them, has been among the most intense I've ever undertaken.

Sometimes a 5k feels like a marathon. Exhausted today. Yesterday was 21 hour day. Morning at court, 5 hours of driving through weather. 2 hours at the gym. Today I’m just dragging. Resting as I can. The run today had me right against the wall.

Good morning most groovy souls!

#Gym stats!

Today was simply a workout. No Personal bests, I went with the idea that this was a simple work day.

Work days are just as if not more important than PB days and victory days. You have to do the work to make the progress you're hoping to make. Consistent work leads to consistent results.

This is as true in the gym as it is out of the gym. The balance holds all life. Extremes will only take you to ruin.

Onward, toward the dawn!

It's been an interesting time for my daily training.

This week my trainer app is telling me to go lighter. I only did an hour yesterday because of time restraints, and resolved to keep it at a moderate pace today.

I was idling along at six mph for my first half hour and then decided to see what I could do, and pushed a little faster.

I handled it no problem, so decided to see how fast I could sprint my final mile.

8:30... I've never been that fast

I'm frankly a bit astounded, but happy!