Journey With Jonathan

Journey with Jonathan – 2025 edition

Journey with Jonathan continues in 2025. This year I tackled the 19th & final edition of the famous TransRockies Run, a grueling 120 mile (190KM) 6-day staged event running through the Colorado Rockies. The course included almost 19,000 feet (5,800 meters) of climbing and started at elevation (2,400m) in Buena Vista, Colorado.

Why would I do such a thing you ask? Simply because I love a good challenge and I enjoy pushing the boundaries of what I think I can accomplish.

MS may present challenges, but I have not let it define my life in a negative way. Through determination and grit, you too can overcome obstacles and find ways to live a full and meaningful life, pursuing your goals despite the challenges you face.

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Riders brave rain to battle MS

Ronald Zajac, Brockville Recorder & Times
Published Aug 19, 2024 • 2 minute read

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On Aug 4, I join ~600 others in the final TransRockies Run, a 6-day 120 mile trail run through the Colorado Rockies
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Perfect is the enemy of good (part 1)

by Jonathan | August 19, 2024 | Jon's Journal | 0 Comments

When thinking about what the right act would be to follow up on last year's MS Bike Across Canada, I really struggled to find something that would be meaningful to me. I wasn't going to be able to take two months off work like in 2023. I also knew that I didn't want...

To Hope, With Hope on a Journey of Hope – My Perspective on my Mom’s Origin Story

by Jonathan | May 14, 2023 | Jon's Journal | 0 Comments

My mom's origin story began in a small town in southern Italy called Castellaneta in 1957. That's where her and her sister were born to Nicola Galatone and Giuseppina Ripa. Nicola (my Nonno) and Pina (my Nonna) were a tinsmith and a seamstress, respectively. Life...

Energy and the importance of understanding our relationship to it. Hope without a plan is not good strategy.

by Jonathan | April 30, 2023 | Jon's Journal | 0 Comments

This past week I've been doing a lot of thinking about the concept of energy. Energy, in the context of what I am looking to discuss is essentially the thing that gives us an ability to do something, like thinking, walking, talking and riding a bicycle. A more...

Pain, Resistance, Suffering, Why and Hope

by Jonathan | April 23, 2023 | Jon's Journal | 0 Comments

I believe those who practice mindfulness or meditation will not be shocked by the contents of this post. I for one could really benefit from a bit of the former, the latter, or both and yet I've struggled for years with sustaining any forward momentum with either...

The link between Distance, Thoughts and Feelings

by Jonathan | April 21, 2023 | Jon's Journal | 0 Comments

As I got off my bike this morning and took a minute to upload the ride on @strava, I chose to take a sneak at my “progress” since the wheels fell off the bus a number of weeks back. I knew I had ridden 60km yesterday and 20 something this morning, but somehow the...