Begin again

Today marks the first week since moving up north to my family’s cabin with my partner Avery and her puppy Josie. My parents moved up here from our house in Eau Claire during the first few months of the pandemic in 2020 - that was also subsequently the last time I found myself up here for a long period of time, waiting out the first few months of Wisconsin’s statewide lockdown.   Do you ever stop and think about how you end up exactly where you are?   A year after I was born, in the spring of 1990, my dad at age 29, would become enamored with building a cabin up in the Chequamegon National Forest. There, on a bit of land his Grandpa had owned along the south western shoreline of East Twin Lake, a lake who’s geology was formed when glaciers began melting away from North America, 19,000 years ago, in a spot that he and his brothers fondly referred to as, “the Meadow” would he and my mom build the foundation for what would become a home and sanctuary to my family and countless others throu

Main - Hastings - Starr - North - N.Star - N.Woods - Gooder - Villa Diane - Princeton - La Salle - Grand *note - italic text was written after the initial post Run By Feel is a term that means what it says - whatever you feel, that's what you do. If your body wants to run slow? Run slow! If it want's to walk? Walk. The focus is on feeling comfortable and alert while actively moving forward. Fast, slow, it's all based on feeling. Long Slow Distance  (LSD) runs involve setting a pace you would consider "slow" and sticking to or around that pace for a long run distance, lowering your heart rate and learning endurance by building slowly. lol sorry if you clicked this link thinking there would be some groovy psychedelic use and running. Maybe later  RBF and LSD runs have become the bread and butter of this project. They cover a lot of ground, are less damage to the body by utilizing aerobic  threshold to optimize the body's input and output. They are full, immersiv