Last adventure before the summer
I wanted to do one last trail running adventure before the summer travels, but we couldn't find a suitable race - they were either too long or too short - so we picked a track with the characteristics we wanted from a book I stumbled upon at the library.
‘Trail running races’ Quest completed
At the end of 2023, while housesitting in the Dordogne, we set out some goals for 2024, as part of our usual brainstorming on New Year’s Resolutions. One of these was to run 3 trail running races - though, in a way, I didn’t really think I’d actually do them, as I have been thinking about getting back into running for years and never really followed up on it
Rites of passage
It’s been said by many thinkers of this era that our western society’s lack of proper rites of passage is a great detriment to our personal development, that we need to be challenged in physical ways, to ‘reintroduce the metaphorical tigers’ in our lives - and I very much agree with this