Early Spring 2007, Okinawa, Japan
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It’s not completely arbitrary to set new goals each year. In many ways, the earth’s travel along its orbit and the cycle of the seasons this produces creates natural phases in our lives and so as a new year begins it is perfectly reasonable to consider all of the things that we want to achieve during the current cycle. Of course, it should probably be noted that most things worth learning and doing require many trips around the sun before any fruits can be seen.
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Part of fitting ultra running into your life, as opposed to fitting your life into ultra running, is that occasionally things don’t turn out like you had planned. Last year I had gotten onto the wait list for Yamacraw along with my running partner Brent and brother-in-law, Joe Dan. Brent was towards the front of the list and easily got into the race, but he was worried we wouldn’t get in and decided to decline his entry. As fate would have it, both I and Joe Dan would eventually get into the race, but with Brent having already declined entry it didn’t seem right for us to go, so we both decided to forego our entries as well. Hopefully this was the closest thing to a Shakespearean tragedy I’ll ever have to experience. I can live with that.
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Well, the equally anticipated and dreaded notification from Ultrasignup has finally arrived. My phone buzzed and I looked down and saw the Gmail icon with a notice from Ultra sign up, which could only mean one thing. Over the past several days I had been monitoring the Last Annual Vol State Facebook page with a mixture of fear and quiet resignation as names steadily trickled down through my feed, each belonging to some poor unfortunate soul being informed of their impending doom.
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