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Category: Practicality

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Practicality or Poetry in Motion?

  • December 27, 2018
  • Tagged as: 12 Steps, 3rd Step Prayer, 7th Step Prayer, Alcoholics Anonymous, Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, sobriety, ultrarunning

I want to show up for today like I do when I line up at the start line of a race – ready, excited, fully alive and in touch with that Power that’s so palpably…

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Help Me If You Can

  • September 25, 2018
  • Tagged as: AA Grapevine, Alcoholics Anonymous, Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill Wilson, sobriety, ultrarunning

I wonder: is there a way to give this podcast and website over to other AA’s so that we all become responsible for it and have a hand in it? I’m sure you’ve recognized the…

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Where Would We Be Without Running?

  • November 3, 2017
  • Tagged as: Alcoholics Anonymous, Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, sobriety, Twelfth Step Call, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

What if running was taken away from us?  Could we still live purposefully, find peace within ourselves, and give of ourselves unselfishly?  These questions have been dogging me increasingly in sobriety.  I look at many…

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Consistency = Results

  • October 21, 2017
  • Tagged as: AA Grapevine, Alcoholics Anonymous, Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill Wilson, sobriety, Spartathlon, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, ultrarunning, Yiannis Kouros

I have recently been studying the life and ultrarunning performances of Yiannis Kouros, a Greek athlete in the 1980’s who held over 150 world records and who seemed able to tap into a spiritual realm…

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Twelve Steps Between Us, A Drink, And The Start Line

  • October 7, 2017
  • Tagged as: Alcoholics Anonymous, Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, sobriety, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, ultrarunning

I recently heard an AA speaker bring the Twelve Steps into plain view and focus for me.  He said that he was a visual learner and that his sponsor explained the Twelve Steps to him…

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Let’s Be Practical

  • September 8, 2017
  • Tagged as: Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, marathon, Ninth Step Promises, Progress not Perfection, running, sobriety, Step Nine, The Twelve Steps, The Twelve Traditions, Ultramarathon

When I speak about running or Alcoholics Anonymous, I find it very hard not to touch on the subject of spirituality.  For me, running would be empty without my Creator’s presence and AA would not…

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