Notes
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Did a lot of thinking on this run. My legs felt great, and that left my mind free to wander.
My uncle passed away today after a long battle with cancer and twenty six years of defeating medical odds as a quadriplegic.
This double this afternoon was an optional thing- I didn’t necessarily need the miles. Anders and I stood for a long time out in the yard at the cabin with my family doing some reminiscing about David, and after that anders reminded me that I didn’t have to run again If I didn’t feel like it. For the next hour or so I was torn- on the one hand, what does running really mean in the grand scheme of things? When life is short and family is around, what’s a few more miles going to do? Or for what greater purpose? And then on the other hand, I’m alive and healthy and have the ability and desire to pursue dreams, and lots of people don’t have the ability to do that. So if you have the ability and the desire in this short and precious life we have, why not do it?
So I left the cabin in my shoes and went out to just think for a while. It was therapeutic in the way that running sometimes is. I’m not really the praying sort, or the person who’s going to say that there’s any sort of divine experience, or even that David was out there, but I’d like to think that in my own small way I paid tribute to my uncle that little run. After 26 years of being immobile, and a long battle with cancer, it would probably make him happy that his family was out living.
Cheers, David, cheers.