Tarmac Meditations #165: Patience, Grasshoppa

Shot the Waldo 100k at Willamette Pass here in Oregon yesterday. I missed it last year due to bad health and atrial fibrillation procedures, but Matt Hagen, a good friend and a good photographer, stepped in and covered my butt. I am grateful to Craig Thornley and Meghan Canfield Arbogast, the fabulous RD’s who invited me back, and to Gary Breedlove, who helped me shoot the finish.

The shoot emptied my tank, if you will, but the day was beautiful, the runners inspirational as they embraced their personal pursuit of their hard earned dreams. I am grateful to all of them as they make these days what they are; their efforts encourage me every day to dream my own dreams and to “lace up and light out” in search of them.

With all of this “positivity” going on, though, why am a bit depressed, as if feeling the passing time in my newly awakened muscles and dreams brings on the inevitable wondering about the implied shelf-life in aging?

Oh well, tomorrow is another day and I will have things to do and promises to keep.

Image Credits

Photos by Michael Lebowitz. All rights reserved.