Recently I was listening to a podcast and heard the statement, “Grief is just love with no place to go.” Man that resonated with me. Looking it up after I got home I found the full quote, “It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in theContinue reading “Digging too Deep”
Author Archives: Shelly Uner
Finding Place
So far June has been a weird month. This morning I’m thinking it all has to do with finding “place.” The 2nd would’ve/should’ve/could’ve been my mom’s 70th birthday. Four plus years after her death I still have some conflicting feelings about how she passed and the years leading up to it. I’m not sure I’llContinue reading “Finding Place”
Letting Nature Take Its Course
Last week I had the new experience of watching a dog give birth to ELEVEN puppies. We had somewhat inadvertently bred our male yellow lab with our best friends’ female black lab. When we got the parents as puppies the long range plan had been to mate them after they were two years old. WhileContinue reading “Letting Nature Take Its Course”
Running the Rabbit Trails
This particular post began as a bunny hop down a few side trails. Here’s to hoping the message still comes through… I recently finished another personal race season, something I usually do opposite of my cross country coaching season. This allows me to be able to focus on my own training without having to workContinue reading “Running the Rabbit Trails”
Don’t Over-Map It
A tale of two bike rides… Friday morning my husband was working from home, becoming increasingly frustrated with the database he had to access going down. In the midst of the first lag he texted me a map of a gravel trail around a local large lake. My response: Let’s go! At first he hesitatedContinue reading “Don’t Over-Map It”
The Trembles
Change. Not my favorite topic. Last week I was pondering wide open spaces; looking out at horizons that seemed endless with little navigational guides along the way. As I was discussing that thought process with someone, they said, “You’re in the ‘trembles.’” The” trembles” are what happens when you are trying to move forward inContinue reading “The Trembles”
Wide Open Spaces
Grief is a weird and fickle beast, and like the proverbial elephant in the room, it can only be ignored for so long. In a span of less than four years I lost my mom, I moved across town after twenty-one years in the same house, I lost my dad, I had two major surgeriesContinue reading “Wide Open Spaces”
A Little Trail Reconnaissance
This is a location that I have run previously but decided to tackle on the mountain bike today solely for the purpose of capturing the main trail on video to look at as a possible cross country practice course. Not my favorite place to bike, but somewhat easier way to grab the footage for furtherContinue reading “A Little Trail Reconnaissance”
Burying Hatchets
This past Sunday I had the opportunity to run at Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee, a.k.a. the state course for Florida high school cross country the last several years. The last time I was at this course was fall of 2020 when the high school girls’ team I was coaching made it to state. WeContinue reading “Burying Hatchets”
The Little Engine Who Could…Until She Couldn’t
The two images above have a couple things in common: one, they were both discovered while out exploring local trails; two, they are both train tracks. Yes, I know, one of them doesn’t really look like train tracks, but when we stumbled upon it after a very early, somewhat long jaunt through the forest, myContinue reading “The Little Engine Who Could…Until She Couldn’t”
Girl with Dog 