Category: The virtuous marriage
The Virtuous Marriage series: lessons on virtues like order, moderation, and resolution, applied to married life.
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Not My Race
Marathon training started this week. No time goal. Nothing sub-anything on the calendar. Just slow miles, building toward a January race with one objective: finish it, and still be running…
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The Voice Showed Up First
I finished the race. 2:06:31. Not sub-two. Same mistake as last time: I overcooked the first miles, paid for it around mile seven, and gutted out the back half on…
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Don’t Stop When You’re Tired
Somewhere in the first mile, the negotiation would start. Five will be good. Six is still a solid workout. Dude, you’ve already done a lot this week. That was me…
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Eleven Days
Eleven days from now I’ll be toeing the start line. My training is done. You don’t build fitness in the final eleven days. You protect what’s already there. The slow…
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The Start Line
Two weeks from Saturday I’ll be standing at the start line of a half marathon with one goal on paper: finish in under two hours. The training is done. The…
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She Showed Up On The Trail
A couple weeks ago I rounded a corner on my morning run and there she was. Pam. Ahead of me on the same trail, same direction. It was unplanned. She’d…
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Who Are You Running For
This morning’s run was supposed to be easy. Three and three quarter miles. A shake out run after a heavy few weeks of long miles, a 5K time trial the…
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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
There’s a line from a running coach I follow on YouTube that’s been sitting with me all summer. What got you from four hours thirty to three hours sixteen won’t…
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Learning To Suffer
Saturday I ran 12 miles. The last six of them were supposed to be at race pace: 8:45 a mile. My legs were ready. My fitness was ready. Four months…
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You Have To Claim It
Life doesn’t settle. I keep waiting for the season to normalize before I do the next thing. Our son heads back to school this week. My mother-in-law is in assisted…
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The Discipline Shifts
The miles are easier now. Not easy. Easier. The base that’s been building since June has done what base building is supposed to do. The body has adapted. The effort…
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Iron That Won’t Sharpen
Marcus never missed a Tuesday. Six months in a men’s group, five other guys, and he showed up every single week. He talked about his kids. He talked about the…