<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Pseudarthrosis Journey]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Injury to Marathon Victory]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:09:48 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Getting real]]></title><description><![CDATA[10:43 am I found a marathon to go to. It’s called the Jackson River Scenic Trail Marathon, and it is scheduled for June 13th, 2026 in Virginia.]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/december-4-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac772aa483e8f6804ba6d</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 02:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[One year anniversary]]></title><description><![CDATA[6:52 pm Today is Thanksgiving Day, the day to be grateful and to celebrate all our blessings. Every year, my family and I drive one hour to Fort Mill, South Carolina, to spend the holidays with my mom’s sisters and all our extended family. As far as traditions go, it is a nice one, and I hope to never betray it. Before we left, my dad caramelized carrots and wrapped them in foil to cook at my aunt’s house. I went for a run at 10:00 (2 miles, 9:45/mile average), and was reprimanded for not...]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/november-27-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac75e6d22c86f75a51e18</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 02:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regionals]]></title><description><![CDATA[11:30 pm Region Meet. 25:19. I beat Kenna and Lyla. I’m so fast and cool.]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/october-31-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac74320141e70489d0afd</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 01:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mileage goals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peak mileage at 25 miles this week.]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/october-24-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac708138134f8172856bf</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 01:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sad day]]></title><description><![CDATA[8:45 pm Break up with friends group. Channeled energy into a 3 mile run on a .20 mile loop. 2mile JV meet on October 11th, 2025.]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/october-9-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac6ec138134f81728565e</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 01:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Longing]]></title><description><![CDATA[8:39 pm I have not run in 3 weeks and I really do miss it.]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/september-24-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac6cf20141e70489d0989</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 01:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did not finish]]></title><description><![CDATA[9:45 am Today, for the first time ever, I DNF’d at a race.]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/september-13-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac6b6595b1ffbde1eb5a4</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 01:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting there]]></title><description><![CDATA[4:11 pm Today I ran 4 miles, without stopping once.]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/september-2-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac6a0e7de3cb00607a1b2</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 01:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[First race]]></title><description><![CDATA[10:02 am Today was the first race I have run since State 2024. The meet was called Eye Opener, which is reputedly one of the worst courses our team ever has gone to, but really it is not that bad if you don’t think about the hill at the end.]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/august-30-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac683595b1ffbde1eb514</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 01:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[PRs]]></title><description><![CDATA[5:04 pm Today I ran 2 miles straight without stopping, which is a PR distance for me since surgery. I do not think I planned this distance for this day, but again it feels right because it falls on the 27th. Perhaps each 27th is my day of progress.]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/august-27-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac66f20141e70489d087d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 01:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopeful]]></title><description><![CDATA[4:30 pm My hip has been hurting of late. I was supposed to go to the trainer at school today after the last bell but I decided not to, because after yesterday’s visit I am convinced that it does not do too much to help me. I am so glad I did, though, because I ran 2 miles (well, I walked 1 and ran 1) in a fartlek kind of thing. I felt so fast again and so free, even though I was running on the track in circles and walked in between each lap (normally, I heavily dislike running on the track...]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/august-22-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac658595b1ffbde1eb48f</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 01:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birthday]]></title><description><![CDATA[4:11 pm Today is my 16th birthday. Last year, on August 11th, 2024, I ran 15 miles to celebrate 15 years. Today I ran for 16 minutes, which culminated at my terribly slow pace at 1.2 miles. I am happy nonetheless because I have not run 1.2 miles since November.]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/august-11-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac641e7de3cb00607a088</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 01:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flying]]></title><description><![CDATA[7:02 am Hooray! This has been my favorite run ever. It is the first time it felt truly right and good and just like what I remembered. The weather was crisp, just like the feeling of an early morning should be. I came back to cross country conditioning to run for the first time there and it went so fast and I felt like I was flying through the air. I had almost forgotten what that felt like until now.]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/august-6-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac62c595b1ffbde1eb402</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 01:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Run 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[5:26 pm This was my second run back.]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/july-29-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac6146d22c86f75a51a44</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 01:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Awful]]></title><description><![CDATA[11:41 am About 12 minutes ago I finished my first run in 8 months. I planned for it to be on the 27th, even though it is about 2 days earlier from when I’m actually supposed to start, because it felt right to have it be exactly 8 months after the first surgery. It felt awful.]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/july-27-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac5fb20141e70489d070c</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 01:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[One more week]]></title><description><![CDATA[4:26 pm Today is Sunday, which means that one week from now I will be allowed to go on my first run. I will have to cap it at one mile max, but I don’t know yet how well I can run yet so we will see how long I can last. Also, I technically have to meet some requirements my PT place has for running readiness, but I might go for a run if I don’t anyway. I chose July 27th because it is exactly 8 months after my first surgery, so it feels better than July 28th even if there is no specific reason...]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/july-20-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac5da6d22c86f75a5198b</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 01:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect summer]]></title><description><![CDATA[7:30 pm Whenever I come home to camp every summer, I am reminded of all the good that surrounds me when I am in this place. Driving down the dirt path road, with the pavilion and girls’ bathhouse coming into view not long after, there is always a breeze of optimism, the hope that good things await at the beginning of any session, and with it the feeling of being whole. There is a feeling quite indescribable at Gravatt. Somewhere between towering pines and decades of paint on plywood walls,...]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/july-19-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac5c2595b1ffbde1eb290</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2025 01:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders in training]]></title><description><![CDATA[11:16 pm The LIT retreat is this weekend, which means that regular Camp Gravatt is out of session and only the kids my age and I are here, with the exception of 5 or 6 counselors and our camp director, Fletch. We spent the day preparing for our retreat, a term which here means a night spent at a special dock on the lake under the stars with the 5 or 6 counselors who stayed at camp. The LIT dock is a so-called sacred place, partly because no one else frequents the dock as much as the LITs and...]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/july-7-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac57caa483e8f6804b447</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 01:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></title><description><![CDATA[10:11 am “Be where your feet are” is something an old counselor of mine used to say. Today I am reminded of him as I sit with my fellow leaders-in-training (LITs) at a quiet spot at camp. It is the 6th day of my being here this summer, although it doesn’t feel that way at all. Time moves too quickly at Gravatt, which is why it is good to take the morning off with my people and simply be, in silence, in gratitude, in love.  I think it is a good thing I can’t get in the lake. I instead sit on...]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/july-5-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac5626d22c86f75a5182a</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 01:19:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letting the light in]]></title><description><![CDATA[7:41 am You are never far from something good, if you care to lace up your shoes, go for a walk, and if you are curious to see what is around the corner and to keep your head in the direction of the sun. And if you can’t walk yet, find an old Adirondack chair and sit for a while.  Keep your heart in everything you do, and take it wherever you go. It is with passion, appreciation, and love that the world opens up to you. It is by opening the aperture that the light comes in. It is by doing...]]></description><link>https://www.pseudarthrosisjourney.com/post/july-1-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cac536595b1ffbde1eb0fc</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:19:59 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Aria</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>