MountainSnail’s Journal

I will occasionally send out a brief email filled with inspiring items of interest, including my activities, things I see and use, and perhaps a meaningful excerpt from my personal journal. Enjoy the journey!

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See you out on the trails, maybe doing some crazy 💩.

It was a good mellow pace today. Letting shit go!

It was a good mellow pace today.
Letting shit go!

The old red Ford survived another winter. 🎉 Rem

The old red Ford survived another winter. 🎉
Remembering the good memories.

Strange people day with something happening that I

Strange people day with something happening that I've never experienced. I passed a runner in his early twenties going up one of the climbs and he went full David Goggins on me and started chanting "You're not better than me" over and over and proceeded to sprint by. It was fun to watch him blow himself out on that sprint up hill. Better luck next time.

Dealing with a high ankle sprain, the grind is rea

Dealing with a high ankle sprain, the grind is real, but I felt decent today.
Let people decide, don't be the deciding factor. You both could learn something. 🤔

Summer is coming, I promise, maybe, hell who knows

Summer is coming, I promise, maybe, hell who knows.
See you in a week bye for now.

The in-between. Spring or winter. “You are not

The in-between. Spring or winter.

“You are not your body or your hairstyle, but your capacity for choosing well. If your choices are beautiful, so too will you be.” — Epictetus
Your ability to choose.

Today's run is sponsored by mud. Your missteps are

Today's run is sponsored by mud.
Your missteps are followed by lessons learned.

"And while I was going crazy, I kept telling myself that there was a lesson I was put there to learn, that there was a silver lining in all of it, that I needed to go through hell to get to the other side, and I did. We cannot fully appreciate the light without the shadows. We have to be thrown off balance to find our footing. It’s better to jump than fall."
Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

Took it easy on today's run. To be free? "I have

Took it easy on today's run.
To be free?

"I have set freedom before my eyes; and I am striving for that reward. And what is freedom, you ask? It means not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms. And on the day when I know that I have the upper hand, her power will be naught."

Moral Letters 51 Seneca

It's the last spike run of the season; maybe it's

It's the last spike run of the season; maybe it's Reno?
Enjoy it.

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