Race Log: 50 Mile Walk – 14 hours, 38 minutes – August 5, 2017 So, if you haven’t heard or didn’t see on the social media channels, I walked 50 miles on Sunday. There were two reasons. One, Joe Homan and his team at Fab Beyond 50 had asked me to be a part of Joe completing the 50 mile walk the day before his 50th birthday. Two, I have a goal of a 100 mile race in August of next year and this was the perfect way to prepare for it. Joe and I walked 50 miles from Green Lane Park

None of us live up to all our spoken ideals. We pretend we do to feel good about ourselves and gain the respect of our chosen groups. I will be the first to admit that my spoken ideals are at times aspirations more than actualities. Its easy to hold up this gold standard as to how a human being should live in the world. It is much harder to attain that gold standard. It may be impossible. The ideals and the gold standards are what show up in blogs, and podcasts, and youtube,