A Far Better Rest

This was the serious face I made so the Canadians didn't think I was suffering.  I was very much suffering.

My mega-season is finally over.  This mess of a racing "segment" (thanks Hansons) lasted from my first marathon prep race at the US 20k in early September to the NACAC Cross Country race last Saturday.  I got to put on the the red, white, and blue one more time, and wound up running halfway well.  The Canadian team was pretty stacked, but our team rolled up on them in the second half of the race and we eeked out the win.  Winning is fun.

So now I am able to rest.  I have only vague plans for the spring, mostly centered around running really fast and winning lots of races.  That's probably a good way to start planning.

Here's a line from another good book I read once, completely out of context:

"But that is the beginning of a new story - the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended."