“Endurance? You’ve only got to get out there and do it.
Face up to it: Man was meant to run.” ~ Percy Cerutty.
I am swimming upstream. Come the end of summer, cool air, touch of Fall, the beginning of the end of things in this cycle, time to take stock, stock up, buy school supplies, bring on the next chapter. With age, my age, comes nostalgia and excitement sometimes in equal doses. Once I was sailing on Lake Superior and the mast broke a long way from shore. We drifted for hours, panicked a little, got it back together, caught a break with a shift in the wind and finally got back to shore the help of neighbor who had seen us drifting away. It had been Summer, lazy, easy and sweet when we set out and Fall, chill, gray and foreboding, the few hours later when we returned to shore. Yeah, we were meant to run, we are also meant to ‘get out there and do it” by whatever means available, every single day, age and weight and troubles notwithstanding, on account of the river waits for no salmon and time waits for no man.
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First Posted At Running Before Daylight
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Thanks Moira.
“… we were meant to run, we are also meant to ‘get out there and do it” by whatever means available, every single day …” Loving this bit. Thanks.