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Tarmac Meditations #6 – Hard Rain, Almost Hail
A runner who isn’t running contemplates what the day will hold and feels an urge to run with the ghosts of his past.
Tarmac Meditations #5 – The Other Side of Love
A runner on the edge of winter, ponders the other side of love, and finds clarity “just a little futha” down the road.
Tarmac Meditations #4 – On Not Running One Day at a Time
A runner thinks about a friend who may be dying, and gains insight from the meditative practice of putting one foot in front of another.
Tarmac Meditations #3 – Morning Song
Out running in the early morning, Michael’s feet move forward as his mind moves back.
Tarmac Meditations #2 – Of Fog and a River
A quiet early morning run. A runner’s meditations. A river. A moment slipping past, almost uncaught.
Tarmac Meditations #1 – On Not Running in the Dark and Cold
“When I run,” writes Michael, “I put in a lot of time thinking about how things are going. Sometimes I don’t think about time and distance. When I get home I have taken to writing some of it down.”
Resonance
I feel vibrations in my feet when I stand on the stairs, after I’ve come in from a run on a weekend morning. I like to think it is the past residents of this old building buzzing through the place; I close my eyes and imagine they are leaving … Read more →
Tarmac Meditations — Lessons I Learned at Marathon Camp
We do not often speak of the Wall, of leg cramps, hunger, rain, or hills in reverent tones. In each of us lives a desire to be challenged, to keep on, to stay in when the road gets hard.
Laundry Day
Maybe the resolution last year would have been more successful if it been “Remain celibate and joyfully single” rather than the trap-door-open-for-sex-and-entanglement wording: “Remain joyfully single.”
Why I’m Really Running This Marathon
I think I’m running the Royal Victoria Marathon this year for Sarah; Oct 1, 1992 – Oct 5, 1992. Sarah Estelle Jean Klassen Wotherspoon was born five weeks early, but she weighed 5 lbs, 10 oz – a healthy weight for a preemie. It was a … Read more →
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