I’m Adi - an accidental yogi, trail runner, and lover of words.
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I can still feel the beat of Steven Adler moving my legs. I can still watch myself reroute so I could share in your music, once again, before untying my shoes.
“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.
“And not at all because I just spent the past hour decidedly not self-diagnosing based on internet research that suggests cancer, bone infections, or spinal cord damage…”
“Naturally, I'm the only one in shorts because somehow, I'm still the only one who falls for Alexa's lies.”
“And with no intention of being funny, continues “I’m going to let this one settle first” as if I’d just offered her a second round of Christmas dinner or something.”
“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…”
“Yesterday, I ran 10 miles. Ten. Whole. Miles! That’s the farthest I’ve run since my stress fracture diagnosis back in…”
“It’s 8:34am, and I just sat down at the coffee bar waiting for my pour over. The weekends are “real coffee” days for me, which I knew…”
“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…”
“So this week marks the first time I’ve deviated from my Long Haul 100 training schedule, which is nothing short of miraculous given my history…”
“They say that boredom always precedes a period of great creativity. I think one could replace ‘creativity’ with…”
