Lifelong Philadelphia resident, Marathoner, Photographer, Blogger, Muse.
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Eat, Pray, Run – The 2012 Edition
Two weeks into the new year and how are your new year resolutions holding up?
Last year I stepped away from New Year resolutions that typically end in miserable failure and embraced a three pronged approach to accomplishing goals over the year. I created ”Eat, Pray, Run in 2011″ and despite crunching a few bones during a mud run in July, I accomplished much using this new approach to New Year resolutions.
This is the year I successfully run a marathon – I can almost taste it. I’ve registered for the Odyssey Half and Philly Rock &Roll Half and plan to run in the following races along with usual training runs and Bootcamp-style cross training.
Planned races for 2012:
- Valentine’s Day Run – Philadelphia Runner – 5K fun run
- Rear in Gear 10K
- Donor Dash 10K
- Broad Street Run 10 Miles
- Broad Street ReRun 5 Miles
- Oddyssey Half Marathon 13.1 Miles
- Rock and Roll Half Philadelphia 13.1
- Nike Women’s Half San Francisco 13.1
- Run the Bridge 10K
- 2012 Philadelphia Marathon 26.2 Miles
Have you any fitness goal for this year? Let me know what they are and how you plan to accomplish them.
Happy Belated New Year!
Due to technical difficulties beyond my control, the blog took an unexpected hiatus for a week. Thanks to the talented Lisa Sabin-Wilson the blog has been restored to all its glory.
I hope my readers had a fabulous New Year’s Day filled with food, fun and family. I spent part of the day with the finest photographers this side of Philadelphia. It is becoming a tradition of sorts for us to meet early on New Year’s Day in South Philly and photograph the Comic brigades on their march up South Broad Street to City Hall. These brigades are filled with joyously inebriated folk, along with fathers and sons in matching dresses and face makeup. This merry parade is tied together with the time honored tradition of golden slippers.
Below the cut is a slideshow of photos taken on the first day of 2012 (Year of the Dragon)
2009 Recap
Midnightblue’s obligatory, albeit delayed, review of 2009. Sorry about that, I got lost in Middle Earth.
This is going to be a long post so check under the fold for all the review goodness
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New Year’s 2008 – Looking forward to 2009
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow;
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife,
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweet manners, purer laws.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY READERS!
New Year Greetings!
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
~Alfred Tennyson
Ring Out, Wild Bells 2007
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more,
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Tennyson
New Year’s Resolutions…
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