Fat Man Trying

I started keeping a running log pretty much right out of the hospital. When I got the bike in Feb of 06, I started tracking the miles on that too. I'm obsessive about it. I love to watch the miles snowball slowly but surely into bigger numbers.

Yesterday, I hit 3000 on my running miles. When tossing in my 1210 bike miles, thats 4210 miles total. I was playing around with mapping and thats pretty much the distance from my front door to the front door of the Blue Loon Bar in Fairbanks, Alaska.



That mapping it out thing really put in in perspective for me! I knew it was a long way, but I was thinking Seattle or something like that. It's amazing how fast it adds up once you get the courage to start.

Where I run pretty much everyday, it's a 3/4 mile loop around a lake. When I was done yesterday and walking back toward my bike and thinking about all this, one of the older guys thats out there walking every day got off the loop and headed toward the parking lot and then when he got even with the opening in the fence, he spun around and headed back for the loop. He's got to be 80 and he's always giving it hell... as we're passing, he's chuckling and he says, "I can't seem to find the finish line!" I laughed and said, "you know, thats probably a damn good thing!"

While sitting back drinking a pint last night, I couldn't get away from that "finish line" comment..

What a journey.

Seize the day!