#1 - Starting Line

Greetings Reader,

My intent with this blog is to ruminate on my passion for running through a daily blog post. My goal is to write one short post per day for the next 365 days. This journey will take us through a series of upcoming ultra adventures, including my first 100 attempt (Superior 100 2018). Hopefully this daily reflection will help me sort out what it is I'm doing, improve my writing, and serve as an example to the high school students I work with at Minnesota New Country School in Henderson, MN. By taking some time to share and reflect on my passion for running, I can inspire our seniors to do the same with their projects.

Topics covered in these posts will be just about anything that I can tie into running. Training plans, recovery, pain, personal confrontations with fear, etc etc. I'm not a running coach, but at this point I like to think I know a little bit; if one person gains new insight or uses this to improve their running or their life I'll be thrilled. Although if nobody ever visits my site but I improve through this writing discipline, I'm okay with that too.

This Day in Training: Rest day, an exciting way to start! I blew fairly hard on a long(ish) challenging run yesterday, so day one of my journey finds me sitting on a porch at our annual staff retreat in lovely Whalan, MN.