What a weekend! Had a great run with about 20 others covering parts of Ruben's Birmingham Marathon and Half Marathon and (fortunately) the comments were universally positive. Okay, it was hot but that's out of my realm. We then got to visit, catch up, and enjoy the best part of running - the post run. Post-run you are happy that you ran, pissed AT your run (but not THAT you ran), stretching, relaxing, and talking a bit with your running buddies. I firmly believe that the vast majority of those that start and continue to run have along the way made friendships that are like a home base. You don't always have to run with them, or WANT to but you always CAN. And when you do, you catch up, visit, and almost always make plans to run again. I genuinely love the people that I run with most ('most' being a relative term, there are some I may not get to run with but once a month, but I've been running with for a year or 2 or 3 (except in one particular person's case - that'd be 13 years....take a wild guess). I do love them and when we do plan to run together, I look forward to those runs most of all....and that's all I have to say about that. Wow - another beautiful Easter come and gone. I think more so than Christmas we need to keep Easter in our hearts year round for a multitude of reasons. Practically, our eternal life is based on it, symbolically it really is a new beginning. When Jesus was crucified Christianity was a radical sect of crazy Jews. Now 2,000 years later....well, from humble beginnings born out of love! The same with our lives, daily or running. Every day is a new beginning. Had a bad 'past'? Screwed up yesterday? Haven't run in a week or month - You can't change the past, but you CAN change the future. Start today, do what 's right for YOU. If you messed it up fix it or let it go and chart a new course! Your own world will expand and progress. Let loose the negative bonds that help you back, in your mind's eye change the negative channel to the Good News Network! If you don't feel like you have any good news, then start today to MAKE news. It is up to you and every day you get a mulligan to right the wrongs or make your world better. The cross points the way, follow your heart, your true heart and make today the best day ever, this week the best week yet, this month first of many great months and this year the best year so far of the rest of your life. I am - I'm walking out the door to the track, I lost those 5 pounds I was moaning about, so now I want to run faster, longer and get a little stronger. New day, gotta go to work! I'm on the GNN...Good News Network producing my own show.