[at-l] Living in the now

[hiker 317]

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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:12 AM, EHamilton <imagainst_the_wind at yahoo.com>wrote:

>  Well....
>
> I am not going back to the Trail in May, as I had hoped. My mother, who's
> almost 89, is just not able to live alone. She can hardly walk, which isn't
> new but gets worse, and her memory and cognition are slipping. So I'm
> staying home and doing things from here.
>
> I am probably going to run the Pittsburgh Marathon, May 2. Haven't
> committed to it yet but I'm running with that in mind. It would be my 25th
> marathon. Yesterday I got in a 9-mile run on snow-packed back country roads.
> Slipped and fell on my a$$ 3 times on downhills.
>
> I'll do that SavageMan triathlon again, too, in September, only this year
> I'll be able to train from the beginning of spring, not just from the ffirst
> of July as I did last year after leaving the Trail. Maybe I'll make it up
> that #%$@ hill this time and get my name engraved in a brick in the road.
>
> I can probably go for overnights or maybe two-night hikes. Our adult son
> lives nearby and loves hiking and camping, as does his daughter, who's
> almost 7. She would like to go on an overnight backpacking trip or two with
> Grandma, I'm sure.
>
> I might even be able to go down to Harpers Ferry and do Maryland.
>
> We'll see. But a thru hike, or half-thru, is off until she doesn't need me
> anymore.
>
> Regrets? Yeah. But no regrets.
>
> MacGyver
>
>
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