WILLIAM HAZEL
Silent Walking
The smell of humid soaked cypress and loblolly. A pileated drills. The softwood spine of a hundred-foot pine offers the meal. Threads of...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Jul 62 min read
Dog Days Belly High
The through of the threshold brought no cold. The unseen comfort curtain hanging between inside and outside gone. Stepping through the...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Apr 272 min read
The First Rain
As spring begins its reign there comes a time for the first warm hard rain. I toast the solstice. Celebrate transition. Watch the yard...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Sep 16, 20233 min read
The Secret Weeks
September offers no immediacy. I am thankful for this truth. This year brings three clear weeks between the end and perceived end of...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Jun 1, 20232 min read
Summer Intention
The fog fell heavy, ghosting expectations for anything resembling sun or summer. The season’s first hours might have invited fresh...
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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
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
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 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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WILLIAM HAZEL
Jan 22, 20216 min read
Why Lazarus Lake's Great Virtual Race Across Tennessee is the Perfect Model for Virtual Racing
As the COVID-19 Crisis spread across the US, it left both runners and running race organizers scrambling to unriddle the mystery of how...
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