Prologue

Over the years, I’ve worked harder and harder to find meaning in life. But the more I've looked, the more I’ve wondered if I was going about my search the wrong way.

I've been looking for meaning through experience, but I think now that I've always had it backwards. Life will never be defined by extravagant experience, but about finding extravagance in common experience. So for 2009, I'm going to focus less on living large, and focus more on living well. Each month I'll start a new month-long project (like trying to run 3 miles faster than George Bush), to find uncommon results from common experience. Each project will involve daily activity, so every day of 2009 you can check my progress on the monthly projects and see what I discover.

None of these projects will cost much—in fact, I think most will be free. So if you're looking for a year uncommonly rich, you can join me. There's no membership required, just participate and comment if you want. Either way, get ready for a year I hope is unlike any other.

Epilogue

I stumbled across the finish line, but I manage to complete 8 of the month-long projects successfully. Blogging is now over at Wonderfam!

It's February, and February was a …

A Month of Accomplishment (about)

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Forcing myself to finish something (about)

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One more time biking

Written by Nathan on January 16, 2009 at 11:58 pm from A Month of Resolve.

I bought new shoes! They’re ugly, complicated and lightweight. I hope that they minimize the pain I’ve been suffering post-run, but my hopes aren’t too high. At the Track Shack, as they fitted me for a few shoes, I briefly ran in each pair. Those few short runs were enough to trigger the same post-running leg pain.

That pain makes me nervous. It’s one thing for it to surface after running some real distance. It’s entirely something else to trigger pain after running tens of feet.

So in the interest of logging a few good run in the next few days, with my new running shoes I took off for the stationary bike again. In 30 minutes I did 12.5 miles (in theory) and knocked out the first 3 miles in around 7:30.

Tomorrow I plan on waking and running, possibly with my brother or sister-in-law. I’m praying for warmth and pain-free running, but based on the forecast I don’t expect either to come naturally.

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