the Enlightened Green Group blog

Dear Tellman & crew,
How’s that healing coming along? Getting well (and staying that way) is an important thing. The longer I study this barefoot running niche the more I find that hordes of people are going against the notions of the whole of humankind from ever before until the present that think (and seemingly have always thought) that they need to put some kind of layer between themselves and the ground. Thank goodness for craziness to make for spreading a word and pushing a cause, for sure.
Today Tellman, you’re looking at almost 22 miles a day, EVERY DAY, if there is any hope that your arrival in LA will occur within the 200 days I prognosticated when I first heard you were thinking of trying this. Won’t take too much to make it the endeavor of a whole calendar year. DON’T GET ME WRONG; I am still sure that you’ll be completing the task you set for yourself! You seem to have that “thing” that’ll drive you to accomplish this too.

That big g search engine thingie says that it is 951 solid hours of walking at just over 3 mph to get from Battery Park to Santa Monica Pier, (39 days 15 hours). I think if a body is able to do 16 hours of walking daily (which would make the journey take 59 & 1/2 days, every day, no breaks) they would have proven themselves to be MIGHTY dedicated to the task. If I were to attack the trek then my 20 miles a day would make the trip take about 145 days. (And I do not know that I could maintain 20 miles a day with NO BREAKS!)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Battery+Park&daddr=Santa+Monica+Pier&geocode=FdwTbQIdXqGW-yEugqvykA0_2w%3BFXyYBwIdJMLz-CGzGQQr8XZiIA&hl=en&mra=pe&mrcr=0&dirflg=w&sll=37.349127,-96.255669&sspn=31.398076,56.337891&ie=UTF8&ll=37.579413,-96.064453&spn=31.314599,56.337891&z=4

Your new sign here is coming along. I have the 2foot by 18foot flat surface in place on the garage roof and the whole area is painted black. I am trying to be dealing with a sign company here in town who will make me a pattern in my favorite regular font (Times New Roman) in the size I need to lay it out all professional looking. I should have the pattern today, and Wednesday looks like it’ll be possible for me to get the paint on it. I hope to have a pilot friend take me up so I that can get us some pictures of what it looks like on approach and from up a little higher, (though I do not think it’ll be readable on any of the map pics I’ll be able to find, even if it is there long enough for the satellite to take another, newer picture. {I know that the “satellites” can see the freakin’ bowl in my hand, if they wanna! THEY can almost read fingerprints from up there, I would bet.})
As far as my opinion of Ian being your new videographer goes, YOU are the one who has to work with him, those of us out here following along can only hope that the quality of the work that has gone before will be a benchmark that the man surpasses with every second of images he captures for you, and those will be some large footprints to fill. (Notice that I didn’t say the “s” word?)
Good luck to you Tellman. And thank you for the stories of the winners you carried this past week, they were all inspiring and heartwarming. Those struggling to do better and those struggling to make a difference in lives need all the help and assistance that can be given. (Even if they do think footwear is the way to go!)
You All Rock!
Watching and advertising from the middle of NO-WHERE… still, as the NM trip has had to be put off, but I had an invite to Christmas in MI just east of the lake so maybe there will be mileage made advertising anyhow.
I am your open and blatant admirerer,
DJ
http://www.enlightenedgreengroup.com

P.S. May I make a few TEEs that say http://www.runtellmanrun.com on them? For myself and a few friends.