ran 3.5 miles
Week seventeen of running against Obama comes to a close today. I ran 18.7 miles this week equaling a grand total of 292.8 miles. My daily average is 2.46 miles per day. I still have some catching up to do. The daily average I need to sustain to achieve my goal of running 2080 miles by November 6, 2012 is 2.62 miles per day.
I hope everyone had a merry Christmas and enjoyed their holiday time with friends and family. As wonderful as Christmas is it always seems to end with a quiet, internal sigh of relief. Children want to abandon their aunts and uncles for the excitement of the new toys they unwrapped, teenagers want to rush to the mall and various stores they received gift cards from, adults embrace the happiness of their sons, daughters, nieces and nephews, and reflect back to when they were that age, and grandparents sit back and watch it all, appreciating that everyone sitting around the tree and every moment that is happening began with them; it is the same feeling of pride and honor their grandparents had when they were only small children.
I hate to dabble into politics on the day after Christmas, when we are all trying to relax, fit in some leftovers, and not face adding up credit card bills or balancing the checkbook, but I just wanted to point out one small thing. Christmas, from the standpoint of an American tradition, is an absolutely beautiful and wonderful annual event from so many different points of view. Christmas is as American as apple pie, as are hundreds of other national traditions. The parallel I’m trying lay side by side is that, by some definition, conservatism is a desire to maintain tradition and liberalism is a desire to change tradition. I am not suggesting that American politics are ultimately a struggle to preserve Christmas as it stands in America, but this contrast is a simple, important fact that can be applied to our nation in various formats.
I challenge anyone who reads this post to really examine what it is you are after concerning your interpretation of America. What do you like or dislike about the state of our nation? And perhaps as a New Year’s resolution find some way to fight for something in this country that you feel is threatened or to strive to change something about this country that you feel is wrong.
1,787.2 miles to go.
Week seventeen of running against Obama comes to a close today. I ran 18.7 miles this week equaling a grand total of 292.8 miles. My daily average is 2.46 miles per day. I still have some catching up to do. The daily average I need to sustain to achieve my goal of running 2080 miles by November 6, 2012 is 2.62 miles per day.
I hope everyone had a merry Christmas and enjoyed their holiday time with friends and family. As wonderful as Christmas is it always seems to end with a quiet, internal sigh of relief. Children want to abandon their aunts and uncles for the excitement of the new toys they unwrapped, teenagers want to rush to the mall and various stores they received gift cards from, adults embrace the happiness of their sons, daughters, nieces and nephews, and reflect back to when they were that age, and grandparents sit back and watch it all, appreciating that everyone sitting around the tree and every moment that is happening began with them; it is the same feeling of pride and honor their grandparents had when they were only small children.
I hate to dabble into politics on the day after Christmas, when we are all trying to relax, fit in some leftovers, and not face adding up credit card bills or balancing the checkbook, but I just wanted to point out one small thing. Christmas, from the standpoint of an American tradition, is an absolutely beautiful and wonderful annual event from so many different points of view. Christmas is as American as apple pie, as are hundreds of other national traditions. The parallel I’m trying lay side by side is that, by some definition, conservatism is a desire to maintain tradition and liberalism is a desire to change tradition. I am not suggesting that American politics are ultimately a struggle to preserve Christmas as it stands in America, but this contrast is a simple, important fact that can be applied to our nation in various formats.
I challenge anyone who reads this post to really examine what it is you are after concerning your interpretation of America. What do you like or dislike about the state of our nation? And perhaps as a New Year’s resolution find some way to fight for something in this country that you feel is threatened or to strive to change something about this country that you feel is wrong.
1,787.2 miles to go.
