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To close out 2025 (already!), my thoughts are on the passage of time. 2026 will see the celebration of the nation’s semiquincentennial, its 250th birthday. At its bicentennial, I was 13 years old. Thinking then about the age I would be at the turn of the millennium (37) was inconceivable. That is now 26 years in the past.
Processing some numbers relative to my running, I share my running story by saying it started as a part of my midlife crisis (this website). My running life is now 14 years old and I just ran my 27th marathon. Neither of those numbers is that small and they keep getting bigger. I will make no predictions about how big the number might get for either my running journey or marathon.
When I was 13, I also did the calculation for my age at the tricentennial: 113. While that’s not likely (actuarially), it’s not impossible. I will also make no prediction how close to my 113th year my journeys will get, but I assure you, they will and the time of their end sooner than I can possibly imagine now. (Hmm, this became a heck of a lot more sober than I had originally intended! Accept it as real.)
This will be my last Rumination for this year (#30!), because I’m taking a writing vacation for the year end, so I bid you a happy turn of the year with all the celebrating you do as you approach it. See you in 2026!
–CtCloser (Calvinthe) “Negative Split or Positive Splat” #dothedue
FINE PRINT ¶Text by Calvin Wang (Wäng), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. ¶Cross-published: Facebook Shawmont Running Club (ZY Weekly Newsletter 12/20/25), Shawmont Running Club website, Ruminations by CtCloser. ¶This website posting: Rumination with added caption and enumeration.
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