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Friday, December 21, 2012
End of the World
December 21st 2012 is suppose to be the day the world ends. Why don't we make a pack to make our individual worlds end...whoa, not like that people. Think of a new world, one where instead of saying you are going to get into shape, you actually do it! A world where that bike on the side of the house rusting finally gets a tune up and a new tire and you actually ride it! Where you don't eat foods that are slowly giving you cancer. A world where you don't have to wait till 5:00pm to enjoy a glass of wine!
Why don't we dream a little bigger and end our personal worlds filled with judgement and self centered actions and replace them with true random acts of kindness (not just posting the ideas on your Facebook page). What if each of us, every single day, did something kind for another person for no reason, no benefit to ourselves, what would that collective world look like?
I plan to greet my new world on December 22nd without procrastination...OK less procrastination. I can see that will be difficult since I am already finding reasons why I won't be able to run on Dec 22nd. The bitter cold. I have to work that day. I'll probably be hung over. What? You can't expect me not to be drinking a fine wine as the world ends or not to drink a choice wine to celebrate the glory of a new world greeting me the next day! I never said this new world would have less wine in it, if it did, that my friends would truly be the end of days.
-Cheers from the Vivác Winery Family!
www.vivacwinery.com
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Running with Santa
As I spend more time running around trying to get the secret Santa shopping and wrapping done, I spend less and less time actually in my running shoes running!
With all this non athletic running, my mind is now running.
Most of us can agree, that this time of year is about loving, giving and appreciating what we have. That is unless you are a six-year-old. Then it is about Santa!
As parents of a six-year-old, it is about running! Running around like a crazy person trying to make a child still believe in Santa. I wonder why we do this? Is it for them or is it for us? Will the magic of Christmas really die with the belief in Santa? After all isn't this time of year about loving, giving and appreciating what we have?
What is it to believe? What is it to have faith? After all don't we believe in the idea that we really will start that diet or get back into shape? We keep believing that we will start running just not today but maybe tomorrow. We believe that we will stop eating all those Christmas cookies. So can't we keep a child believing in the magic without extra gifts and all the running around?
I plan to figure out the answers to all these questions… on my next run… which will start on the first of the new year of course!
Until then I will pop open a bottle of Vivác Cab and recheck my naughty and nice list.
-Cheers from the Vivác Winery Family
www.vivacwinery.com
With all this non athletic running, my mind is now running.
Most of us can agree, that this time of year is about loving, giving and appreciating what we have. That is unless you are a six-year-old. Then it is about Santa!
As parents of a six-year-old, it is about running! Running around like a crazy person trying to make a child still believe in Santa. I wonder why we do this? Is it for them or is it for us? Will the magic of Christmas really die with the belief in Santa? After all isn't this time of year about loving, giving and appreciating what we have?
What is it to believe? What is it to have faith? After all don't we believe in the idea that we really will start that diet or get back into shape? We keep believing that we will start running just not today but maybe tomorrow. We believe that we will stop eating all those Christmas cookies. So can't we keep a child believing in the magic without extra gifts and all the running around?
I plan to figure out the answers to all these questions… on my next run… which will start on the first of the new year of course!
Until then I will pop open a bottle of Vivác Cab and recheck my naughty and nice list.
-Cheers from the Vivác Winery Family
www.vivacwinery.com
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
To Give and be Merry!
Now as you all recall having read about Jesse's rigorous training through this blog, that I would be the one that trained and ran a race next. The only problem with this plan is that I have become incredibly lazy! As training for a Marathon forces your body into shape, sitting on the sofa forces it the other way. Trying to keep my running schedule now takes a monumental amount of mental work. I feel like a child trying to get out of going to school... "I can't today! I'm sick (fake cough a few times). I'm injured (fake limp for a few steps). I have a paper cut!"
Needless to say, I have needed a little prodding. Jess is a good prodder.
Our run on Friday revealed that I seem to have a new coach too. I'm not sure I like this guy either. While Jesse was ever the supporter coaching me through Marathon 1, this new side of him is full of torture and sick excitement. He cleverly waited till the last mile of our run, with me exhausted to the point I had stopped talking (takes a lot for me to stop talking), when he says "so what we are going to start doing is speed trials". He sounded absolutely delighted! He went on to outline my new training schedule, giving and giving and giving in true holiday spirit. His lack of recent running seems only to have catapulted him into a sadistic individual intent on my misery. How is he so happy and excited about this?
So, as I write to you, attempting to avoid the inevitable run looming in front of me today, I see that this holiday season will be kind to some of us and not to others...ooh ouch, I think I just paper cut myself on my keyboard!
-Cheers from the Vivác Winery Family!
www.VivacWinery.com
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