Sunday, September 3, 2006
...not with a bang, but with a whimper (broken ribs do that to me...)
THINGS I'M GLAD I DID
- time spent with Ann - there's never enough, when you live 230 miles apart
- running Summer Solstice at Minnewaska, Indian Ladder at Thacher, Forge the Gorgeous at Filmore Glen, and Race the Train at North Creek
- running/hiking the Greylock Death March
- hiking at Taughannock Falls and Watkins Glen - fantastic!
- running at Thacher, Mendon, Five Rivers, the Pine Bush, the Genesee Valley Greenway, Genesee Valley Park, and the Schenectady-Rotterdam bike path
- riding the Pine Bush trails, the Mohawk-Hudson bike path, the Erie Canal Path, and the Old Erie Canal path
- teaching karate
- read some good books (and some mediocre ones)
THINGS I WISH I'D DONE
- spent more time with Ann - there's never enough, when you live 230 miles part
- talked with/written to my friends more
- run at October Mountain, Beartown, Mount Washington, Keuka Outlet, and Peebles Island
- run more
- ridden more
- ridden the trails at Minnewaska
- run the Finger Lakes Fifties 25K
- run the Savoy 20 Mile Trail Race
- trained more (karate and iaido)
- written more (those two books are never going to get written, at this rate)
THE THING I WISH I HADN'T DONE
- well, duh - crashed my bike and broken various bits, demolishing my fall marathoning plans
I read recently that summers seem to go by faster and faster as we get older because they represent a decreasing fraction of our total life... for a 10 year old, one summer is 1/40 of his life, but for me its currently 1/164 of my life. I'm not sure about that, but this one sure seemed to fly. I definitely know that as long as I continue to have many things I want to do, there will never be enough time to do it all.
But I'm going to keep trying to do as much of it as I can... (especially once these blasted ribs heal up!)
JMH
