Happy New Year

It is the last day of 2013. My dogs are asleep and I am lounging on the sofa after a nice little run along the Bronx River. I am house sitting for a friend in Yonkers, 21 miles north of my apartment. While 21 miles is not much distance, about a 3 hour run, it is like night and day. My dogs are getting 1-2 day wild runs in Bronxville at Scout Field, and i am running along the Bronx River Pathway, which is a great path along the river with ample space to run in the dirt along the side.  I am also very close to trails, so the next 17 days here I will be hitting the trails and relaxing in this great house.
Tonight, I have no grand New Year Eve plans beyond working on my linoleum prints. I am almost done with a 24″ x 30″ block. It is my plan to get 6 done while here so that I can go right into printing when the new semester starts.
So Happy New Year to you and I wish you lots of great adventures in the New Year!

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Wrapping up the year.

Christmas is just two days away and it is hard to believe the warm weather in New York City. This weekend on solstice I had a great run from my home across the Manhattan Bridge through Brooklyn and back over the Williamsburg Bridge to Manhattan. It got so warm I had to take off my shirt. I had to admit it does feel pretty good to be running shirtless in December, but I do miss the snow.

I am planning my 2014 running calendar side by side with the exhibition schedule. I decided to head out to Boulder to see my friend Mardi and run the USATF Cross Country Championships in February. In March I go to California to see my friends Audra and Loren and run the 50k Canyon Meadow Trail Run with Coastal Trail Runs. It is just outside of San Fran in the Redwood Regional Park. April I have the Boston Marathon, then nothing until Sept. I will run the 5th Avenue Mile and then go back to Utah for the Big Cottonwood and repeat the JFK50 in November. That should pretty much do it, but I am sure I will do a few small races in between those. I would really like to run more cross country.

I have two solo exhibitions in October, one at Wave Hill in New York which I am preparing for now and one in Kansas at the Gallery at Pioneer Bluffs, Matfield Green. I will most likely head to New Mexico in May sublet my Lower East Side Apartment. Do a load of artwork and climbing in CO, then head to Kansas and work my way up to NYC for two months. If all works as I have planned I will be on sabbatical from June 2014 until August 2015. In 2015 I am going to Australia for a bit, and hopefully have an exhibition and run the Overland Track Trail Race. I am about to send out a few applications for exhibitions around the US and I am pretty excited about that.

Over the last few years at work I have been taking courses in the graduate program of Exercise Physiology and realized I just about finished my M.S. degree, so next semester I will take my remaining courses and complete it. I also just completed my NASM-CES class and will take my certification this week along with my NSCA-CSCS certification and next semester my NASM-PES certification. I will be a super certified M.S. Exercise Physiologist with stength/conditioning and nutrition concentrations. That is pretty exciting, so who knows if I get tired of teaching, actually tired of all the administration paperwork is more accurate, I am explore new options.

Wednesday I begin house sitting for a friend and I am very excited about it. It gives me much close access to trails, plus a lot more room to move around in. She has a real house. The dogs are going to love and so am I. I will have three weeks to focus on craving blocks for new artwork. It is going to be a great time.

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