For the 14th year in a row I took a photo every day in 2022.
The Boy got terrible blisters wearing his running shoes so he walked the last ~20ish miles in Crocs.
Well, all three members of my family ran personal bests at Across The Years again this year (Rob 127 miles/24 hours, Melissa 142 miles/48 hours, Will 51 miles/24 hours). Since I ran 24 instead of 48 hours this year our family total was less than last year (by about 7 miles).
📚 I read some books in November:
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Today We Die a Little! by Richard Askwith
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill
Discipline Is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
The Nova Incident by Dan Moren
How Not to Die by Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM & Gene Stone
The Running Man by Stephen King
24/6 by Tiffany Shlain
Breath by James Nestor
The Caledonian Gambit by Dan Moren
The Bayern Agenda by Dan Moren
The Aleph Extraction by Dan Moren
Money by Jacob Goldstein
Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff by Matt Paxton & Jordan Michael Smith
📚 I read some books in October:
America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges
The End Is Always Near by Dan Carlin
Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
Doctor Zhivago by Borìs Pasternàk
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
I read some books in September:
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
The Fate of Rome by Kyle Harper
Moonraker by Ian Fleming
Hero of Two Worlds by Mike Duncan
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Breath by James Nestor
Range by David Epstein
Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming
How to Relax by Thích Nhất Hạnh & Jason DeAntonis
Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
I understand this sounds a little bonkers to most people, but a road marathon is a short, fast race for me. Thanks to training with my son this summer I felt I had enough speed work under my belt to give it a go for the first time in 7 years, just for shits and giggles. It went well.
Whoa, we’re half way there (1:28)Whoa, living on a prayer (2:58)3rd place
2022. They fixed the battery life. They fixed the lack of hardware buttons. They even started making sport loops and solo loops for skinny people. Finally, a watch for athletes… with an oversized crown that digs so far into my bony wrist I can barely even spin it. Ugh.
In the last six weeks I’ve read five different books written by British authors who used the word corn to mean grain. I’m 43 years old and I had no idea, but apparently this is a thing.
I read some books in August:
Cues by Vanessa Van Edwards
The Teenage Brain by Frances E. Jensen & Amy Ellis Nutt
The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb
How to Focus by Thích Nhất Hạnh & Jason DeAntonis
Courage Is Calling by Ryan Holiday
Rubicon by Tom Holland
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
The Power of Fun by Catherine Price
Claudius the God by Robert Graves
How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
I read 9 books in July:
Earth Awakens by Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Real Artists Don't Starve by Jeff Goins
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
The Power of Showing Up by Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
I read 13 books in June (65 so far this year!):
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu
A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card
The Four by Scott Galloway
The Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway
Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston
Bigger than tiny, smaller than average by Sheri Koones
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics by Dan Harris, Jeffrey Warren & Carlye Adler
Ultramarathon Man by Dean Karnazes
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal
Earth Afire by Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston
How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price
I made a video of my recent 100 mile race at Bryce Canyon.
