My year didn’t exactly go as planned (whose does?), but I graded myself on how I did in 2022 anyway. Do I get an “A for effort” or an “F for hiding away and binge-watching TV”? Click to find out.
The thing about time is that it slips by unnoticed. The days are long, but they run together so quickly—one week turns into a month, then an entire summer, and suddenly it’s fall. I certainly never intended to take such a long break from this blog. In fact, I carried my laptop to work for …
Running a 50k on my own forced me to confront and manage my own negative and self-defeating thoughts without that in-the-moment support from my partner that I had grown so used to, which was valuable, important, and above all, exhausting.
As I mentioned last week in my winter’s lament, I have recently started training for a 50k, which is part of my goals for this year. I’m about three weeks in, just starting the fourth week, which is thankfully a down week, and I’m so incredibly full of energy. But why a 50k?
Consistency is commonly said to be the secret—the secret to success, athletics, or perhaps even a long life full of rainbows and unicorns and cookies. Along with this, people also often say that consistency is not sexy. Too true. In fact, I would say that consistency is downright boring.
I wouldn’t particularly call myself a resolution maker because, let’s face it, most resolutions are destined to fail. But I do like to set goals, especially goals that are both flexible and have a distinct end point or time. These are my 2022 goals.
A few weeks ago, I completed my planned goals for the beginning of 2021. First, the Spring CMTR Scavenger Hunt, which is more or less documented on my Instagram. But the real highlight of my goals for this year was running the Cuerda Larga or, as I like to call it, 10 miles of power …
It has been some time since I’ve gone hiking (and written here), pretty much since I hiked from Morata de Tajuña to Chinchón in March. Because my athletic goals this year are different than my partners, I’ve been focused more on running than slow hiking with a heavy pack. In addition, his training hikes usually …
I have heard people refer to 2020 as “the lost year,” and 2021 isn’t shaping up to be much better. In more normal times, by the beginning of the year, I usually have some sort of idea of what my goals will be because now they often revolve around a mountaineering objective, which must be …