Sometimes I have a hard time remembering the good times. I don’t think it is because I haven’t had many lately… I think it is more that I’m consumed with moving forward. The next thing. Growing past the moment. It’s exhausting really. The other day, my two younger sons – Grey and Park (and their buddy E) – and I were on one of our nearly daily walks to school and Grey pipped in… “It smells like Crested Butte.” It hit me like a sack of bricks and reminded me of something special that we all have and one of…
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“When you finish these events, you inspire EVERYONE around you.“ There is no place like the finish line. A place that a few hours before was your start. Familiar but new. It transforms into something you can see and you can hear about but you can’t really FEEL until you have crossed it. The physical space transforms… so that you can transform. At one moment, a starting line. Hours later… a finish. At 8:00a, you will start and suffer and think you will fail and you either will or you won’t. But you won’t because you are made for this.…
2 CommentsCan I talk a bit candidly again for a few minutes? It might be a rambling of thoughts and ideas but maybe that will be an even more transparent insight into my thoughts at the moment…. I remember back in college.. I first decided that coffee was what I was going to do and nothing could or would hold me back. It never felt like there were any road blocks that could hold back the tidal wave of creativity in my soul that that I was pushing towards my end result. It was a controlled recklessness. It was a passion.…
1 Comment(this has NOTHING to do with coffee or business or Edmond or anything more than something that is bringing ALL the joy at the moment) For the past 3 years, our oldest son – TUK – has jumped head first into the world of lacrosse and has since played day in and day out it seems. Last year, he decided to try out for Impulse Lacrosse based in Tulsa, Oklahoma and headed up by Pro Callum Crawford – one of the top forward in the National Lacrosse League and Ryan Fournier. None of that really made any since to me…
Leave a CommentC.S, Lewis said that.. or, maybe it was just his character in Shadowlands that said it but either way – someone said it and I like it. I actually first saw this posted on the sidewalk sign in front of my friend Ben’s bookstore in Downtown Edmond but that isn’t really what this post is about.. At the end of 2022, I was feeling drained and just plain exhausted. I found myself looking at my phone more and more per day and had that “fed up” moment with myself. In fact, it might have been a time when I got…
Leave a CommentThere were 201 miles that came before this. Hours and hours of riding. Bottles and bottles of Tailwind Nutrition. There is something about the finish line that I can’t really express or explain. That feeling of being done while knowing that this might just be the beginning. That reset of your “impossible” that happens with each line you cross. I don’t go to races guaranteeing myself anything. I don’t even really go to races knowing what I’m capable of doing. I more just show up to races willing to try something I’m not sure I’m able to do. Zach Miller,…
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