I’m Adi - an accidental yogi, trail runner, and lover of words.
All tagged trail running
Because my travel day is long, I chose a sweater and yoga pants. Once I win the war of pulling them over freshly showered legs, they’re the most sensible option for comfort whilst squirming about my airplane seat. I’m latching onto comfort in any manner available, as it would be days before my body feels soft, feels at ease again.
There are a few things in life that unfailingly make me smile: dad jokes, certain cheesy 80s songs, and when I can walk out the door - or unzip the tent, if you will - and be standing smack dab in the middle of something beautiful,
Already pulling out of the studio lot at this point, I whipped into the nearest parking lot, flung my door open, and dry heaved into the grass until a grocery store bagger came over to ask if I was okay. “I’m always okay.”
“Saturday morning, I woke up to the sound of wild turkeys and the smell of a skunk, and I hadn’t felt that content in many, many months.”
I didn’t know much about her as a woman in her sixties. Or fifties or forties, for that matter, because as soon as I could leave, I did.
“So sorry, Adi, but we’re going to have to do the first two sections again. If you can think ‘very, very still,’ this should be it.” It takes nine songs to get your back imaged.
“Naturally, I'm the only one in shorts because somehow, I'm still the only one who falls for Alexa's lies.”
“I had tears in my eyes when I hit the ‘send’ button on my deferral request email because I’m a child, and then I began anxiously awaiting January like a kid waiting for Santa. Again… a child.”
“Last Sunday, I made my way to the trails for the first time since the Brooks-Adi collision last September….”
“I have this really obnoxious habit of using text editor to throw down my thoughts, notes, to-do items, and anything else that I don’t have…”
“I should be on a dark mountain, right now, running trails lit only by the stars. Instead, I’m sprawled across the back seat of my friend’s truck wondering…”
“I sat down in my corner at Elemental this morning, and rather than sifting through my work email, something prompted me to open up the…”
“I had a running first this weekend at the Angel Fire Endurance Runs: I… actually, I’ll tell the story and then you’ll see.”
“I’m sitting on my bed right now, which if you’d seen me try to get up here you’d understand why this is such an accomplishment. About five hours ago…”
“A funny thing happened on my run this morning. Actually, two funny things happened. I should qualify this with…”
“They say that boredom always precedes a period of great creativity. I think one could replace ‘creativity’ with…”
