The Beginning

Well, I'm sure this will sound like the beginning of every other blog. Asking the questions why do people blog? Why am I blogging? And what in the world am I Connor Williams going to have to talk about that is important enough for anyone to want to sit down and read? But to begin I don't like the idea of blogging, sitting down and informally reporting your life to a world of people that may or may not have ever met you. But what I do like is the fact that it forces you to put yourself out there and be honest with what your doing.

My primary reason for wanting to begin writing here was to have a place to log my running in a fashion that is more in depth than just writing down my running time, distance and the shoe I wore. After 2 years of reading Aton Krupicka's blog I decided it was time to follow, but for my own personal reasons, however similar to his they may be. This is an opportunity for me to sit down and put all of the thoughts and ideas I have whipping through my head during a run on paper for myself to reflect on and think about, as well as provide other people the oportunity to see what running does for me in my life.

Although the primary writing will be about running, both recording my mileage and my thoughts on significant runs and races, I will be writing about things that go on in my life. Whether its a day skiing or a week in the back country on my motorcycle, these activities will work their way into my writing as the two of them play a major role in my life.

As far as running, cross country this year was a year of mediocrity. I never ran great, never ran poorly, just ran well enough to continually improve from the week before. Mentally this was the toughest season I have ever had. I struggled to stay motivated throughout the year and constantly dropped my mileage, continuing the downward motivation. But after a long season and two weeks off last week was my first week back to running. While I wont go into detail about each day, the beginning of the week was a motivational struggle and battle to keep running, but in the end I topped the week off at 73 miles for a great first week back.

Starting this week yesterday with a 9 mile run with 8x 3 minutes on with 1 minute rest at about 10k pace, it was again a motivational struggle as to the start of the week. But today was different. Today was a incredible run, one that sealed my decision to spend my night sitting here typing about something as simple as running. Today I headed into the mountains again for a more than enjoyable run. Climbing over 2500 vertical feet in 11 miles of snow covered trails. I am finally getting really excited about running again and ready to crank up the miles as the weeks go on.


Just a few pictures from my run today.