Sneakers and Wine

  12/31/2022   It is the last day of 2022.  Many of us will reflect on the year and set goals for 2023.  Many of us probably already have.  As I reflected on my year, I began to see how far I have come, what I accomplished.  Things that I or others, at one point, believed were impossible.  But this year I proved to myself again, that nothing is impossible.  I set my goals and focused.  It sounds simple enough but that kind of focus is not met without challenges.     When I run in the early morning, alone, in the dark.  I know my route and while it is fairly well lit by street lights, there are small corners that get darker and it’s not always easy to see the ground in front of me.  Plenty of times, despite my intentions of the direction I am going, there is something as small as an acorn or a fallen crab apple that tries to stop me.  That obstacle I didn’t see com...

I turned 44 this year.    I have been running a lot again.  It started with a goal earlier in the year to complete a 50K which I did primarily solo with my good friend running almost 5 miles with me, showing up at a moment at which I was seriously considering quitting.  And s omehow in the process of working towards that goal,  the joy of running miles found its way back into my soul and I now find myself outside again most mornings breathing, moving, just being alive in the quiet of the day’s dawn. It’s funny because so much has shifted and moved in my life since I “ended” the original sneakers n wine, yet I am somehow still finding myself doing the same, running miles, sipping wine at night.     So much about just those two things have changed though too…. I’m pretty set primarily on white wines now and not every night and when I run, I don’t just run miles, I am trying to push myself. I find myself on more trails now as well.     I’m not r...