1740. old faithful

 

faithful guardian

day and night - weather be damned

you sit at your post 🦊❤️

I swear that the cast iron dog featured in today’s post has the spirit of a real dog in its metallurgy. Every time I passed by I felt an aliveness to it presence. 🦊❤️

1739. time of our life

 

we sat in silence

our work was done - we rested

wrapped in gratitude 🦊❤️

After 10 grueling days at Infinitus 2025, we spent two days in a beautiful air b&b near the race venue to rest and relax and spend “quiet” time together. We talked a lot about gratitude and how fortunate we are in between the silence.  All that happened or didn’t happen at the race was dwarfed by the togetherness we shared for two days. 🦊❤️

1738. queen of origami

 

sitting on her throne

adorned by her latest works

“origami queen” 🦊❤️

The sun did not shine for even a moment on this rainy day, except for the smile on Yulan’s face as she sat in the midst of her latest origami creations that she had framed. 🦊❤️

1737. the ultimate destination

 

a trav’ler i’m not

when i do i always say…

“there’s no place like home” 🦊❤️

I’ll make this short and sweet, “There’s no place like home.” 🦊❤️

1736. life is a puddle

a lucky child learns

that life is a big puddle

meant to splash in 🦊❤️

My big take away from Infinitus 2025 came to me as I watched two beautiful children playing for ten days in pretty miserable conditions. The take away is that life is a big old puddle that offers us the choice of jumping around and splashing in it or to complain about it and do everything we can to avoid getting wet.  Congratulations Jordan and Ben for letting your children jump in that puddle and get plenty wet. 🦊❤️ 

1735. make believe

trekking poles churning

the finish line within sight

what dreams are made of… 🦊❤️

As her mom was completing the last marathon of her gold medal victory in the  Infinitus Deca Marathon event (a marathon a day for ten consecutive days) her daughter is busy winning her own gold medal having fun! 🦊❤️

 

1734. go find some inspiration

 

through rain, mud and cold

they walked two days and two nights

inspiration reigns 🦊❤️

At Infinitus the 100 mile trail event has a cutoff time of exactly 48 hours. Mud, rain and cold reigned at this year’s event. Dipak and Satya hiked the entire event rather than running. They suffered pretty significantly during the last overnight 18 mile stretch of the 100 miles. They finished, dead last, mud soaked and cold an hour before the cutoff time of 8:00 AM. Only a handful of people were still at the finish.  It was the most inspirational moment of the 10 day Infinitus experience. Inspiration is out there to - go find it. 🦊❤️