Turn your rut into a groove.

I finished an interesting and playful book by Italo Calvino called If on a winter's night a traveler. It's a metafictional postmodern book full of pretty much everything. 

And here's the rundown for 2023:

Runs: 335

Hours: 263

Miles: 1,668

Monthly Average: 139 (Biggest month was 153, smallest was 125)

Elevation Gain: 104,990 (Biggest month was 11,654, smallest was 7,024)

Monthly Average: 8,749

Trail Runs: 106

Books Read: 50

80% of my runs were at an easy aerobic pace and 20% were at tempo or faster. Decent year w/ lots of dirt and some good conversations and learning. 
Happy New Year!

pm--4 Cholla and partway up the hill w/ Tom. Nice chat about life and his family.

pm--5 Heights w/ 5x hill sprints. Better turnout than the past few weeks. 
 

I finished a book about teaching composition by Steven T. Nelson, Teaching the Way: Using the Principles of The Art of War to Teach Composition.

pm--5 Anasazi to the creosote. Learned about Tolstoy and realized that consistency is more important than starting off with a bang.