Rowan O’Roark

Rowan O’Roark

 

 

Been a tough week to celebrate the annual Holiday of LOVE.

Fever & lack of energy, day after day after day.  Hadn’t missed a [non-marathon] day from work in YEARS, but this… can’t seem to shake.

So 2K20… most thankful for those PRESENT in our lives.

Those who show kindness and love when you’re down & need it most.

Many thanks Ash for bringing by food.  Thanks to friends texting/for checking-in.  And thanks most to my best pal, Ro.  BESTEST companion EVER.  I love ya buddy 🐾

Happy Valentines Day 2K20 ❤️

 

Where there is great love, there are always miracles” ~ Willa Cather (1927)

 

 

 

 

Valentines Day FUNNY (niece & her comfort cat)

 

 

 

No Pocahontas, no John Smith.  Pilgrims failed to stick the landing.  Travelling to Japan, Thanksgiving Thursday.  Flying o’er the vast Pacific.  No Wobble Gobble fun run; this year my 7 Continent FINISH.

So… canned cranberry come early.  Thanksgiving Saturday.  Sunshine, snow on the ground 🙂

Super thankful.  Still feasting at Ash & Tom’s Westminster home.  Double the cat count (extra fosters), grandpup Marty sported his holiday bandana.  Purchased our first smoked turkey.

Tryptophan snooze.  Bad Hallmark movie (holiday tradition), ‘The Mistletoe Secret’.  No real secret…Kellie Pickler’s Appalachia accent still subtitle worthy.  LOL>  Film set in Utah, yet none of her TV family speak Dollywood.  Wins the contest/finds love/saves the town & ALL catch the Christmas spirit.  LOVE LOVED.

FAMILY  DREAMS  HEALTH  FOOD  COLORADO HOME  my FAITH

List of what I’m most thankful.

And snow.  Better get on board, ‘cause it just keeps coming.  TWO FEET forecast on Tuesday ❄️

Happy Thanksgiving y’all.  Live, laugh BIG, eat BIGGER 🦃 ❤️

 

 

Est. 1959, Happy Birthday Stephen!  🎁 🎂🎈

 

 

“Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen” – Orhan Pamuk

 

dig a good Reuben ❤️

 

March 2019 update:  After marathoning 63 consecutive months, the streak ‘lived or died’ on March 30th.  Wise words from Dave Bell haunted me all week: ‘never schedule your marathon last week of a month.’  STRESSFUL lesson learned.  Had Saturday’s all-day RAIN EVENT included lightning, the buck would have stopped in Carmel, Indiana.  Yikes!  Too close for comfort.

Dave Bell?  The guy who’s streaking ahead of me – by 8 FULL years.  All hail the Chief.

February/March training miles met, but no progress on past sins.

Little too late?  Memorial Day is comin’ fast!

Next month:  Italy 🍝 🇮🇹   Eat, eat, eat!

 

Race ReCap: 3 medals, 1 DNF.  Arkansas, Arizona & Indiana.  4 states shy of all 50 😊

Marathoning Streak:  64 months; EVERY month, FIVE+ years.

Mileage ReCap: ended March at 1675 miles (only 605 miles to GO!)

 

 

 

Marathon Calendar:

  • 04/07/2019    Milano Marathon (Milan, ITALY)
  • 04/27/2019    Frisco Railroad 50k (Willard, Missouri)
  • 05/05/2019    Eau Claire Marathon (Eau Claire, Wisconsin)
  • 05/17/2019    Nutmeg State Marathon (Hartford, Connecticut)
  • 05/19/2019    Colfax Marathon (Denver, Colorado)
  • 05/26/2019    Rocky Mountain 50k (Laramie, Wyoming)
  • 06/02/2019    Deadwood Mickleson Trail Marathon (Deadwood, South Dakota)
  • 06/15/2019    Big Horn Ultra (Dayton, Wyoming)
  • 06/28/2019    Black Hills 50k  (Sturgis, South Dakota)