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Occasionally, you see or read something on Twitter, well, that’s worth seeing or reading. Frank Dick, a former athletics coach and now motivational speaker, offered one today. Dick told a story about a 9-year-old Scottish girl wanting to run the 100 meters. She ran her first one in 18 seconds, finished last in her mind, … Read more
The Poem-a-Day email arrives every day. Some days, I actually read them. The New Year, by Carrie Williams Clifford first appeared as “For the New Year” in The Crisis XIX, no 4. February, 1920. The New Year comes—fling wide, fling wide the doorOf Opportunity! the spirit freeTo scale the utmost heights of hopes to … Read more
Good morning. Happy New Year. I’m trying a new approach, writing first thing in the morning before the day runs off, blows the turn and heads for the hills. Barn duty this morning as Covid continues to wreak havoc with all aspects of life. Nine horses waiting their turns. We aborted our trip to Alabama, … Read more
Early in the final full week of August, before the Travers and with light at the end of the tunnel that was the 2021 Saratoga meeting, my mileage meter clicked from the 400s to more than 500.
Heading home from Alabama. Covid descended on family members, it’s closing in on us. Feel like we’re on the run, trying to outrun an invisible enemy. Speaking of run, Joe climbed past 1,000 and Tom is creeping ever closer to the iRun Local 1,000-mile challenge of 2021. As for me, I derailed sometime during Keeneland … Read more
“You’re really putting in the miles,” my friend Megan said about a month ago. “You’re probably going to catch me.”
“Joe, why do you run so much?”
My joke answer to that question from a neighbor, friend or family member typically goes something like, “So I don’t become an ax murderer,” and gets met with an odd pause before I laugh and say that I’m not really sure why. I didn’t run as a younger person, not regularly anyway, but I’m a regular now and managed to cross off the 1,000-Mile Challenge presented by iRun Local this week. The challenge idea took root in January when Tom Law and my brother Sean brought it up during our annual winter summit.
The 2021 winter solstice came and went Tuesday, along with another 6 miles hopefully on the way to 1,000 for the year.
The fifth at Plumpton. False start. “Oh, let em go, they never get better…” Nobody’s fault today. Christmas looms. Car not packed. Stockings not hung. The live Christmas tree which fell off the truck now lives(?) outside, trying to reintroduce the haggard looking beauty to the cold, a thread of needles from living room to … Read more
Trying to get back in the swing of writing every day. Or, at least, more often. I do remember it being a 2021 resolution. There was also something about running 1,000 miles and something about reading 52 books…and something about…yeah, it happens. Just walked into our office for the 2022 ST Summitt. Tom Law is … Read more
