06/13/2023
This is 40.
When I showed up to my first cross country practice in college, my teammates - all of us 18-20 at the time - thought that I was the 40 year old assistant coach. I’ve been waiting ever since to earn the age.
Today I ran my birthday mile in 5:50, losing 0:13 seconds over the last year owing to not much running and a healing foot. Then Giselle and I recreated our first date: REI, Mexican food, and Home Depot. Then I came home and did some house projects.
I’m grateful for all that I have in my life: my wife, a couple kids that are mostly cool (I was painfully smacked in the eyeball during bedtime tonight), my broader family and network of people, a job that I’m honored to be asked to do and that gives me purpose, a decent place to live and pretty good health. I have many opportunities behind and in front of me.
If this is what my life is, I feel pretty damned good about it. Thank you all for being in it and bringing me joy.
Big things are ahead (including a faster mile next year!).
