Category: Personal journey

• Mr. Toads again?

  My recent experience at Hart Park, where I kissed the trail and finished my hike with my face covered with mud, has not killed my desire to run the trails. Parkinsons may have taken my ability to safely run trails, but that doesn’t mean that I can’t hike them. And so I will. I use my […]

  Chuck

  June 18, 2019

  Health and Fitness, Personal journey, Uncategorized

  20k, 5k, mr toads hiking hart park parkinsons trail, steep hills, trail race, trail running

• Finishing Strong

  “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful” (2 Timothy 4:7 NLT) As a long-distance runner I know what it is to run the race. I was always conscious of the need to start well and establish my pace early. As a new runner I often fought […]

  Chuck

  December 18, 2018

  Health and Fitness, Personal journey, spiritual

  gilroy, long distance, prize, race, righteousness, running

• Testimony

    I have been around for 72 years, and during that time there have been many changes that have impacted my life. I guess the first one I can remember that is important is when I changed from a bratty eight-year-old to a water-baptized Baptist bratty eight-year-old in 1954. Somehow, I made it through high […]

  Chuck

  November 11, 2018

  Personal journey, spiritual

  2 corinthians 12, jeremiah 29:11, long distance, ministry, parkinsons disease, running, satan, testimony, trail running

• Thorn or just bad luck?

  The reality of my life is that I have Parkinson’s Disease. The recognition of this reality has caused me a lot of grief. I had to give up my long distance running due to taking a bad fall and the inability to run for any length of time without getting extremely fatigued in my legs. […]

  Chuck

  November 4, 2018

  Personal journey

  1 corinthians 12, parkinsons disease, pride, thorn in the flesh

• My Spiritual Journey

  Back in 2013 I began a project called My Spiritual Journey. Originally intended to act as a document for my future generations to know who Grandpa Chuck was, I decided to make it public as it may encourage or inspire others outside my immediate family. So here it is to date – from an 8-yr […]

  Chuck

  June 13, 2018

  Personal journey

  air force, baptist church, baptized, i.o.o.f., nazarene, spiritual

• The Journey Begins

  Are you familiar with the term ‘fits and starts’.  If not, from the Free Dictionary – with irregular movement; with much stopping and starting.   Somehow, they got the job done in fits and starts.  By fits and starts, the old car finally got us to town. By fits and starts I may finally get this blog rolling!  I guess I should have gotten a little farther along the learning curve before I published, but such is the life of a guy who traditionally […]

  Chuck

  May 13, 2018

  Personal journey