New Year (The Beginning of the End of the World)

So it's 2012.
To ring in the new year this morning my wife and I went and ran at the Atlanta Track Club's Resolution Run 5K in Kennesaw. It was unusually warm- 60 degrees F at 11 AM. The humidity felt like 100%. There were lots of people, probably 2000+. This race marks my 3rd year of running.  I actually started two and a half years ago at the Peachtree Road Race 2009.

I have always been an athlete as long as I can remember. My earliest childhood memory was of me playing soccer barefoot outside in the dirt with my friends when I was about 4 or 5. Growing up in a third world country I never wore any shoes or footwear besides flip-flops or sandals- the kind that was made from recycled car tires. I loved the feel of the dirt and the wet asphalt under my feet when it rained, which it did a lot along the Mekong Delta, South Vietnam. I remember running, riding bikes, playing soccer, jumping ropes and just walking for fun outside 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, literally from sun up to sun down. We did have a TV with one station which broadcasted in black & white from 7 to 12 at night. Yes, I'm that old. (Forty cough six)

Fast forward to some 40+ years later, and I now have a newfound love for barefooting or going sockless whenever I can. I run in minimalist shoes/ zero drop shoes for about a year now. I go barefoot indoors as much as possible, and wear flip-flops or sandals even in the winter. It must be my midlife crisis. Some men get convertible sports car or cosmetic surgery or have a mistress, I run. Every. Single. Day.  I didn't set a personal record (PR) or anything like that today but it just felt great achieving my goal of running every single day for the past 387 days.  KISS.  Keep it simple sweetie.

2012 Resolutions:
#1   Run every day.
#2   Eat healthy.
#3   Live simpler.
#4   Keep a sense of humor.
#5   Be more pretentious.
#6   Act my age.  Not!
#7   Will run no Marathon at all, not even half of one.
#8   Will stop posting on facebook when I'm drunk.
#9   Drink less beer.  More wine.