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Creation Elation

My focus moving forward is to create more art. It is something I did for years leading up to "adult life" and for some reason I stopped. Although at times it is incredibly rewarding, my career as a media executive has not fulfilled me creatively the way I expected. In fact, often it has cause the opposite effect, stress, poor personal habits.

Cold Hands

I am pretty sure I will have no problem sticking to my 30 mile a week New Years Resoution, considering I've been running regularly and fairly high miles for the past few years, I just wasn't expecting the coldest day of the season this morning. I ran 5.5 miles in 12 degree weather, realfeel 2 degrees. For the first time in 5 years, my hands were in considerable pain about 15 minutes into the run. But, I'm on track to hit 35 miles this week.

2012

This year I am excited about my new year's resolutions.

I feel I did a pretty good job keeping my 2011 resolutions, some of which included:

- starting a new business from scratch (CORE RUNNING COMPANY, a retail business I opened, then sold, in August)

- spend more time with my kids

- run at least 30 miles a week (kept it until August when I moved to New York)

Our family took another big risk last year. In 2010, I walked away from a good, executive position at The Oprah Winfrey Network, to focus on opening a retail business, just to see if I could do it. Left media altogether, at arguably the top of my game. Moved out of LA to the Austin, TX area. It was fun, but not my "dream" situation, so I sold the business, and we moved back to New York City, the greatest city in America (in my opinion). So now, it's another fresh start...

For 2012, here are my resolutions:

1. Drink at least 80 oz water per day

2. Run the NYC Marathon in under 3:10

3. Be active on my blog

4. Teach my kids more: art, athletics, motivations

5. Continue my running regimine (30 miles a week, minimum)

6. Find happiness in my career choices (finish what I start)

7. Eliminate artificial creamers and sweeteners in my coffee

8. Completely eliminate soda from diet

9. Reconnect more with old friends

10. Always remember relationships are more important than work/job

Cheers

Run San Marcos

The new chapter begins. I have been working hard on getting my new store ready, CORE RUNNING COMPANY, here in San Marcos. It has been alot of work, but alot of fun. Central Texas is a rich running region, with tons of recreational runners, due to the active demographic and favorable weather. Austin, 25 miles to the north, is a very densely populated running city, with 4-5 stores competing for business.

I chose to settle down in San Marcos, a very small community in Hays County, about a hlaf hour away. Although not as busy here, I am happy to create a store that will service this community. We live here, send our kids to school here, and work the local races here. Above is our local San Marcos Runner's Club, an incredibly active club in town that does twice weekly runs. A few of the group competed in a 5k this morning, I am getting back into "racing" shape, but was suprised that I actually was able to win my age group, 40-49, and earned a tombstone trophy.

I'll keep the info coming on CORE RUNNING COMPANY, but we are super happy to be part of this community and building a local business that hopefullly be around for a long time!

I am superficial

I never really cared that much about nice cars. Take em or leave em. But now I have one. And it's really nice. I did buy it used, it's a 2004. But it's a Lexus SC430, a car that has not changed body design since 2002, and keeps the current design today. So it LOOKS new. I keep feeling guilt about owning it. But it really was about the same price as a new Honda Accord, so it wasn't that irresponsible right?

Market Days

Sunday: Movers unloaded our house. Monday: The cableman arrived too late to install internet or cable. Tuesday: appliances arrived. Wednesday: cable arrived and it took 8 hours to install due to our hilly lot. Also, pouring rain. Thursday: Painted wood paneling. Friday: tree fell on electric line, washing machine drain backed up and overflowed. Saturday: Needed a break. So we drove 15 minutes to Wimberley, Texas, a super cool artsy town in the Hill country.
The first Saturday of every month they have market days, with everything from ceramic skulls, to paper maiche Texas maps.