Story for 'Splitting Wood' is not a Strava activity - so I ran to Home Depot

There is just something about splitting wood that is so cathartic for my soul.  It provides such a release of anger, frustration or weariness from life's occassional of B.S.  

That said, when you are a skinny cyclist punk it also requires a focus that I can't find in too many activities.  I can't afford wasted strokes or wild swings -it just takes too much of a toll on my body. Tool and wielder have to work together so it is not an all out explosion of rage.

God knows l love this maul.  This wood was so dry, it was one and done.

I guess that it is like most endurance sports - too much or too fast and you find yourself unable to continue no matter how prepared you are to suffer.

If I am honest with myself, I was a tad hacked off at the world and had a bunch of stupid crap floating around in my head.  Those issues needed to be ejected from my soul or threaten to come out in other ways. 

But alack, alack!  'Wood Splitting' does not appear to be something you can track on Strava.  With most of my riding chums out of town or off climbing the Gaps of Georgia, I looked for something I could squeeze into the now deteriorating daylight.  I am still a little sketching on my mountain bike but a run in the woods seemed like just the cure for both my angst and my little Strava problem.

Anger and fear push animals to flee or fight but it is the human that can reach past those base levels and find more of themselves in the effort.

To run without limits on your personal wellbeing is an elusive goal (also not really something you can track) but damn if I didn't chase it yesterday.