100 MILES

 If you recall, I originally started this journal to be my journey to completing a 100 mile race. After 3 years of intentions, I decided my real intention was just to get physically and mentally where I wanted to be as an individual. 

One of my good buddies recently sent me a documentary recapping the Barkley Marathons from this year. If you aren't aware of what the Barkley Marathon is, you should spend sometime reading up on it, but just understand that it is one of the most wild ultramarathons out there. 

After watching it, the bug to again complete a 100 mile race is eating away at me. There is something about accomplishing a feat so outrageous that most people don't even dream of, and the feeling of accomplishment that just eats at me. I'm going to do it. It's not going to be soon, but it will take a lot of preparation. I'm getting myself ready to do it. 

Officially down 20 lbs. since I started this journey. It feels so good. 

I've been actively exercising, which adds a whole new layer to my efforts. I love moving my body and being outside. 

I'm been really happy with my eating habits. My body feels better. My mind feels better. 

“Perhaps the genius of ultra running is its supreme lack of utility. It makes no sense in a world of space ships and supercomputers to run vast distances on foot. There is no money in it and no fame, frequently not even the approval of peers. But as poets, apostles and philosophers have insisted from the dawn of time, there is more to life than logic and common sense. The ultra runners know this instinctively. And they know something else that is lost on the sedentary. They understand, perhaps better than anyone, that the doors to the spirit will swing open with physical effort. In running such long and taxing distances they answer a call from the deepest realms of their being — a call that asks who they are …” David Blaikie