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Micah Ward's avatar

I love this article. I don't carry a notebook with me, but I do keep a running journal and I tend to write a lot of things down that are outside the world of running. Especially when I'm traveling. While it mostly records where I've been and what I've done, it also provides ideas and desires for what I want to do in the future. It gives me a place to record important things that have happened. For example, when my wife askes when I last had a colonoscopy I can say, "Let me check my running journals!"

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Dino Corvino's avatar

Hey Martin, thanks for this. I started my journal the last day of 6th grade, and have been writing in it 30 minutes a day until now. I am 52. There have been 2 times I stopped writing, one the end of my relationship, and the other after my dads suicide. The first was just sort of young man melocholy, the second was because I realized I needed intense mental health care. I had crossed a line, and scared myself. It was cool to catch it, and without the journal I might have missed it. I struggle with the pocket notebook. I want it to be a spiral mead thingy, but they always get bent and my brain freaks out.

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