Reminders...

Today I ran for just under 33 minutes. I only stopped twice during my run. Once because I almost fell and another time because cars were coming and I needed to not get run over. It was a decent run. I had trouble catching my breath, and my ankle hurt a little bit, but I'll be all right.

When I think back about Elora, I always try to picture her in my mind. Sometimes It's a picture of her when she would wear nothing that would match, or it's her wearing her running outfit. Or it's the last time I saw her laying in her hospital bed. But one picture is one that is clearer than any of them. It's a picture of my Grandma Geier, and of Elora. It's taken at Hartwood Acres and Elora is running around, and Grandma is in her wheelchair. I often think of that might have been the day that Grandma passed on her secret for not complaining about what was about to affilct her. See not too long after that day Elora was struck by a car and it forever changed everyones life. Grandma Geier had this wonderful resiliancy about her, she had Polio as a child, a few pacemakers, severe diabetes, a debiliating stroke, etc. etc. etc. But you never once heard her complain about what was bothering her. Unless it was one of her kids. Elora was the same way, she would complain if somebody was bothering her, but not if something was bothering her. My dad once told me that Elora one time went to school with a broken leg only for it to be discovered at school. I need to learn how to not complain about things like Grandma Geier, and Elora, So if during the course of this journey you see my complaining about this and that, please remind me about Grandma and Elora.

So as my plans for the rest of this weekend, tommorow I'm going to be putting in a floor system for a house at work, and then run tommorrow evening. Then this weekend I'm going to the beach to see my cousins and just relax and I'll be back monday evening. Hopefully with good stories of running on the beach.

Until then...