The old phrase goes – How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. So how do you tell a 7 day adventure story? One little blog post at a time. It’s a bit overwhelming to tell the journey of 160 miles across a desert and it also …
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Music of the Desert…
May 30, 2012 in: Adventures in Jordan 2012, Music to Live To, Stories from the Run
I remember reading an article once where Stephanie Meyer, author of the Twilight series, spoke about the role of music as inspiration. She said that although she wrote the books during the summer in a dry, hot Arizona desert, she couldn’t even remember that summer passing or the excruciating heat. For her, …
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Dream Big, Fail Bigger?
May 8, 2012 in: Adventures in Jordan 2012, Get Inspired!, Popular Posts, Running Therapy
FAILURE – it’s such an icky word. Roll it around on your tongue, there’s no way to make it taste sweet. At a certain age, you can’t help but have a few failures on your life resume that perhaps still gnaw at you. I know I do. Sure, you try to …
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Several months ago we had the opportunity for two days of back country training in Joshua Tree with some friends. A wonderful chance to test gear, swap stories, and generally remind me how stinkin’ lucky I am to live this crazy, beautiful life. On the first day, I consciously started …
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Carlos is the very handsome, very maniacal course director for most of the Racing The Planet events. I discovered their YouTube channel this morning and there is a wealth of fascinating, terrifying information about Jordan. This one is only 15 seconds, but has sent me into an instant loop re-evaluating my …
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