Finertias Quest

Hello Friends and Family and anyone else interested in my thoughts and adventures! I’ve been contemplating creating a blog for a while, which is strange because I never particularly enjoyed writing. After I was urged by my boss to write a blog post for work, I ended up really enjoying it. So that was the final nudge to try it out. I don’t really know what this space is going to be yet, in my head I see it as a log for my adventures and create narrative stories for each one. Another reason I wanted to create it was an unhealthy obsession with instagram. I love the idea of sharing myself online to my friends and family, but what instagram and various other social media apps have become is so beyond that. So my compromise with myself was to get rid of instagram for a bit and try putting myself out there in a different way, that will probably be more rewarding for me in the long run.

Today I challenged myself to create a running plan. My relationship with running has been difficult for the last couple years. I identify as a runner and do enjoy doing it, but have a hard time keeping up with it all the time. I get easily distracted by other things to do (typically brain rotting or watching a sitcom I’ve seen hundreds of times). Or the other thing I do is shoot high in the first week and hurt and pull back. I think this is a common experience for a lot of people trying to get into running or back into running. We get so caught up in all these grand adventures or seeing what other people are doing and get inspired and go straight from couch to huge to failure, and endlessly repeat this cycle. Well I am tired of it. I’m gonna draw these endorphins out for a while, and start by building my foundation again. Going for simple runs, and throwing in a fun long run once a week. Once that feels like a strong consistent cycle is when I will start to add some more s~p~i~c~e to my regimen.

So that was my first “adventure” posted for the world. I think this is going to become a mix of narrative adventure pieces and a flow of thought about things going on in my life. Both are adventures in my book, this one just starts at a metaphorically trailhead.