So here we are. A new world. Maybe not a brave new edition, but the current version. During the last few months the common denominator is flux. New baby, new boss, new home. All of these things are awesome. Coaching, working 50+ hours a week, and running on four or less hours of non-continuous sleep each night. Planning, preparing and hosting a college cross country conference championship meet from scratch (with infinite amounts of assistance and grace from my supervisor and co-workers). Still loving and supporting my awesome wife, maintaining involvement in the lives of friends. Heck, I still found time to run and race three times the last six months.
Yet there remains only so much waking time per day and the allotment remains overbooked. But the desire to engage the world through writing and processing thoughts in this location never once left my mind. Holding a crying infant at the most unholy of hours, driving 12-passenger vans across the upper midwest, logging a thrice weekly 30-60 minute run and leading over 100 team practices allows lots of time for asking questions and pondering answers but little time to post a coherent response.
As the new year flew by, the naive notion of 52 posts over the 2016 calendar year flowed through my mind. Yep, it's the last week of March and here we are...entry number one. I assure anyone interested enough to actually follow, that I will not attempt to play catch-up over a brief period of time. But I do assure you that there are plenty of entries rolling around in my very dizzy mind.
For now, I'm pleased to say my six month old, handsome, talented, runny nosed, future olympian son is sleeping enough during the day that I might actually get back to writing regularly. You might even see pictures posted here. I am a competitor, especially with myself. So stay tuned as I attempt to play catch-up in world that just keeps on running.
Hopefully I'll be back soon to talk about books I'm reading, training questions I'm asking and other random items that roll through my head while I'm rolling down the river road logging miles in my office on the run.