Day 1
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When you can't run, walk...
Although a week long chest cold has taken me away from my morning workouts, I did get out for one 6 mile run this week while on-event in Sioux Falls, SD. 74 degrees and a calm breeze pushed me along the path as the sun dipped out of sight. With the vision of curling up into bed early fading, my reality became consumed with the twilight sourrounding me. Following the curves of the stream under the suns last rays, my winged friends came out to feast on river bugs that flurry through the night. Diving through the air, I picked up speed until I began to fly among them. One, two, three bugs I swallowed as I thudded along over a metal bridge with wooden planks drumming as I went. Breathing to the cadence in-2, 3, out-2, 3 to the trance of six more pounds dripping out my pores. The equation is simple: one foot, then the other, until the habit begins to flow, and pretty soon you're riding the wave of the bat brigade.
Hafthor Bjornsson...
There are two types of resumes out there: Traditional and Social. According to Forbes magazine, "we're moving from a 'knowledge economy' to a 'social economy'."(January 1, 2013, Forbes) This change reflects a shift in power as jobs and industries once requiring the knowledge of experts are being transformed by the rise of technology...
Sitting on our farm stoop this fall evening as the corn dries, almost ready to be picked, my mind wanders to my grandfather, who was plucked away from me almost three years to the day. I am grateful for his lessons, for his joy, his laughter, his devotion. “There is something new to learn every day,” he would say. I learned from him that to reap the best harvest, one must first sow the right seeds, tend the fields, and then, only after a full season of work, can the farmer enjoy the bounty of his efforts...