The Still in the Race Podcast

Brian Jones
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  • RUNNING

Still in the Race captures my thoughts and reflections as I lace up my shoes and run through the transition from a career-driven life to retirement—with no set plan for what comes next.

  1. 12/26/2021

    Reflecting

    The calendar has changed, and my sixty-first birthday is in the rearview mirror, and another year has slid by.  The original challenge of working to make a difference has been replaced with trying to find small improvements in my surgically repaired left knee. In many ways, this was the most fitting way for this journey to end, and I find myself in the most familiar of places, starting over.  And, in a way that can be difficult to understand, even for myself, I relish these moments even as they frustrate me.

    8 min

  2. 10/11/2021

    Before and After

    The problem with living with a trained medical professional who spent much of her career in orthopedics is that she can read the results of your MRI.   Darkness had set in when she pulled up my files online and began reviewing the results.  I sat quietly, reading a book, pretending that I wasn’t interested, waiting for the diagnosis.

    18 min

  3. 09/12/2021

    Counting Down the Days

    For the first time in several months, I know what the next couple of weeks will bring.

    13 min

  4. 08/19/2021

    A Terrible Decision

    I know how to manage my current situation.  Running a good time is off the table.  I can’t train the way that I want to. I need to shut down for two weeks, get back on the road for a week, and then shut down for another week before the race.  My time will suffer, but if I can slow down and maintain discipline, it still could be a successful day.

    18 min

  5. 07/29/2021

    High Maintenance

    We are always on a schedule, evaluating meals and watching the weather.  Last weekend I went to the extreme and slipped in a run between tornado watches.  We have to carve out time, and that doesn’t happen without support from whoever you are sharing life with.

    30 min

  6. 06/26/2021

    So Much for Wisdom

    I proclaimed victory far too early.  Forty years of never quitting regardless of how sick it left me wasn’t overcome by one day of common sense. Unfortunately, my moment of achieving wisdom was little more than an aberration, and I am still the same person that I have always been.

    18 min

  7. 06/01/2021

    Running and Thinking and Thinking and Running

    As I run, there is plenty of time during a five-mile trek, and I found myself reflecting.  More specifically, reflecting on the fifteen-year-old version of myself in the seventies.

    16 min

  8. 05/06/2021

    The Official Start to Spring

    It was a big week.  At least it was a big week in the way that I measure things.

    19 min
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Still in the Race captures my thoughts and reflections as I lace up my shoes and run through the transition from a career-driven life to retirement—with no set plan for what comes next.

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