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William Hazel Writes
WILLIAM HAZEL
Jan 22, 20233 min read
The January Gym
The January gym reeks of resolution and self-loathing. New faces in new clothes staining in the sweat of want and willpower and...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Jan 14, 20233 min read
Resolution Run
and a quest for large mimosas The 10am 5K start felt far from resolutory. Dawn would have impressed. Shivering in the New Year’s frost at...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Dec 31, 20223 min read
December Journal
Thoughts of family, belonging, and boundary The rain falls easy thick on the last day of December. I am warmed with coffee and the...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Dec 21, 20222 min read
Winter Solstice - Sharing the Shortest Day
It is the solstice and Winter enters with expected calm. And my neck is sometimes stiff from tilting my face towards the southern sun. In...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Dec 14, 20225 min read
Driving in Hampton Roads
Life and Death on Interstate 64 Fifty-six hundred pounds of Escalade hard laid its side. A brilliant red of rescue lights reflects...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Nov 30, 20222 min read
November Haiku
and other fallen leaves strewn Like my thoughts, my kitchen counter, my poetry felt scattered, windblown against fence bottoms. They...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Nov 20, 20221 min read
Running To Zen - A Marathon Journey
Now available on Amazon Books My first book is about running. Running from not being able to run to running a marathon. I didn't write it...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Nov 16, 20225 min read
A Sound Bath Experience
Drenched in good vibrations The resonance peaked within my teeth, then expanded through my gums and in another moment my entire jawline...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Oct 31, 20222 min read
October Haikus - Daily haiku by the numbers
A daily haiku practice through the month of October. The date being the prompt word for each day's entry. cedarwood incense first eve...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Oct 27, 20225 min read
Running With The Wicked
A costumed race unmasked It's one of those crazy costume races held near Halloween. I'm dressed as a vintage pilot, sans leather jacket,...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Oct 17, 20225 min read
Reflecting on Something in the Water - The best thing that ever happened to Virginia Beach
My blood boiled cold when I read the emails. I don’t remember a specific time when nor a place where I first heard the Virginia Beach...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Sep 14, 20225 min read
Lessons of a Self-Published Book Journey
I wrote a book. Then I self-published the book. These are two very different things, with few crossover skills. The process took much...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Aug 31, 20223 min read
How Yoga Ended My Back Pain In Six Months
An eighteen-wheeler introduced me to real pain. After suffering a major trauma in a collision with a vehicle ten times bigger than my...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
May 11, 20224 min read
Strolling the Old Beach Farmers Marker - A No Mask Outing to Another Dimension
No masks. That's the revelation today. And it feels weird. It feels amazing, but weird. I thought I'd have a crest the top roller coaster...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Mar 23, 20227 min read
Running the 50th Anniversary Shamrock Marathon Weekend - Three takeaways from returning to a big run
It overwhelmed me for a moment while standing in the middle of the Virginia Beach Convention Center. That subtle mix of anxiety and...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Feb 21, 20225 min read
The Three Stages of Running - and Why Stage 3 is My Favorite
It was the simplest expression of how the meaning of running changes and evolves through your life I had ever heard. And it brought one...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Feb 1, 20225 min read
Beyond Mile 20 – Three Lessons of the Marathon
I had never run a step beyond 20 miles. That was my limit. That was the longest of my long runs. Like many first-time marathoners, I had...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Nov 30, 20214 min read
Celebrating A Running Anniversary
I knew my life had changed when the young man in the turkey suit onesie whooshed past. I was excited to be running in my very first road...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Oct 14, 20216 min read
Ghosts of Thoroughgood Past - Taking A Ghost Tour in Virginia Beach
It is a place of age. A place of time. And of a kind of timelessness. We approached the Thoroughgood House, my wife and I, with a quiet...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Oct 6, 20215 min read
Doing Yoga at Home - Three Great Resources
Yoga changed my life ten years ago. The transformation, of course, didn’t occur in the first class. The process of personal metamorphosis...
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