I am new at blogging and who knows maybe I will be the only one who will ever actually have any interest in what is said, but here is me giving it a shot. I have recently been reminded how quickly time goes. A year ago today my dad was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and the doctor gave him a year, maybe two. Almost a year later, he passed. That year went by so quickly. I talked to my dad two weeks before he passed and I knew that his time left on this earth was short, but I could never imagine that he would just go so suddenly. He had a bad fall and the next day gone. WOW! That certainly threw me for a loop. But my dad is not the point of the blog and really time is not either, I just bring it up because I have always wanted to do a blog and just never took the time. And now that I have been reminded how quickly time goes, I don’t want to be laying on my deathbed thinking, “Geez, I should have written a blog!” Probably not the thing I will actually be thinking, but you get it.

So what do I want to blog about you ask?!?!? Running, that’s what! People love it, people hate it, many people have written about it, people talk about it or they don’t, but for me, it is something that became a huge part of me about ten years ago and on multiple occasions has picked me from my lowest place and brought me back to being my best self! It has been my friend, my enemy, my love, my life, my family, my success, my failure, my happiness, my sadness, my anger, my joy, essentially my everything. I can always count on running to be there for me and like a dog, no matter how I act towards running it will always let me come back and it gives me unconditional love. I know it sounds like I am talking about a living being so think about it this way, in each runner running lives, and to me that makes it a living being. And because of that, running and I have a relationship. I would like to use this forum to talk about that relationship, because just like all relationships, I can always use some advice for when running and I are in a fight or maybe someone can take my relationship with running and use it to help theirs. I am not 100 percent sure how this blog will turn out so I am up for advice in that department as well. I NEED TO GO FOR A RUN…so I will leave this one thought…why do I call this blog in the dark, be the light…it’s because I like to see the good and there have been times when the dark clouded my light just a little, but when it came down to it my light has always shown through and it has always been a guide and running has helped keep that light bright. I want to talk about the serious, real parts of running along with the silly, fun parts but not matter what the topic, you can count there will be light to help guide through the dark.