Goals & Resolutions

Last day of 2019, last of the decade.

Lotta social posts reflecting on folks’ decade past.  TEN years!

 

Oh the places I’ve seen… and family memories shared.

Mountain peaks conquered with my best pal Ro 🐾

Friends imprinted on my soul.

Cover-to-cover spiritual growth.  Twice.

And Colorado… 10 years now my Colorado home.

 

Where will the next decade take us?

Feet forward.  Eyes upward, focus straight ahead.  Happy 2K20!

Imagination Nation.  Absolutely anything is possible 🥳

 

Be proud but want more ~ @hansonsrun

 

 

Happy New Year, Texas!

 

 

“You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.” ― Sir Edmund Hillary

 

7 Continent FINISHER.

2013 my first marathon – BIG WILD Alaska.  Three years later (Banff Nat’l Park), first outside the U.S.A.  Weekend last… the WORLD.  26.2 miles, EVERY continent.  Regular people doing extraordinary things.

DREAM.  LIVE BIG.  BELIEVE.

Massive physical feat, marathoning 7 continents.  Lotta travel/time zones/weather, different cultures/foods.  But what I’ll long remember… the incredible/inspiring people on my journey.  Other runners.  Their stories, their paths.  Family, friends, neighbors who worried/encouraged & sometimes even accompanied.

And… my work family.

Marathon uno, race 100, marathon last.  Same Boulder-based employer.  PS Audio.  It’s where I found BALANCE.  All the gimongous corporations in [my] career past – whole lotta talk of work/life balance.

Reality?  It’s a 50-person family-owned company that sets the bar.  Talks the talk, walks the walk.

Cake, lunchroom celebration.  Super nice.  Thanks work family ❤️

Champion of the World!

 

 

 

4 years & a 100 marathons ago.  Just north of the border, my journey began.  First run in kilometers, first outside Team USA.  Alberta, Canada.  Goal: 2 provinces annually & it started in Banff.  Lake Louise hike with Toronto-bestie Sarah, bib pick-up at a local curling club, wedding [not mine], marathon the following day.  Banff National Park, my North America run.  Well… my first North America race in kilometers.  7 Continent goal wouldn’t kick-in ‘til Continent #3.  Like most of us, just didn’t DREAM BIG enough 😊

Destination: Europe.  Italy, Iceland, Austria.  Celebrated marathon #100 w Sis in Dublin.  But my first…that was Moscow.  Red Square, Kremlin.  Past revisited.  4 years outta college, biggest/most influential career/life boost.  Anything is Possible mantra sparked.  Reconnected with Dima, now married.  Language flooded back.  So many memories.  I’d finish Sunday with a first-time marathoner.  Life’s moments best when shared.

Continent 3: Australia/New Zealand.  On-the-left/self-drive two weeks with my bestie Dawn, both North & South Islands.  Longest flight EVER, L.A. to Auckland.  Rotorua.  Christchurch.  Franz Josef Glacier.  Queenstown.  Oamaru.  Hobbiton.  And… a marathon.

São Paulo Brazil.  Largest city in South America.  First-time I felt completely foreign.  Hot & balmy.  Brought home more than my 4th continent medal.  Sis named him Pepe.  6 months of Colorado doc visits, before folks realized I harbored home a parasite – whole nest of ’em.

Elephant, lion, hippo, cheetah, giraffe – Africa’s Big 5 – and my fifth Continent.  Knysna South Africa.  After an initial fender-bender (sorry Hertz), had the most FANTASTICAL life adventure.  Yes, elephants DO snore.  WOW destination.  I’ll come back to Africa 🐘

ANTARCTICA.  Journey to the bottom of the World.  NEVER EVER did I dream I’d be snow-tenting on Earth’s most remote continent.  Crazy cold sleep even in… summer?  Penguins.  frigid Antarctic water.  Place & time I’ll never forget.  Forever LIFE IMPRINT.

6 down, one to go…  Sunday’s 42k in Osaka, Japan will complete the set.  Absolutely ANYTHING is POSSIBLE! ❤️