Run

-i can talk to myself
-it’s my lone time
-it’s a whole new dance revolution on it’s own
-it doesn’t make me feel young. i don’t care for immortality. what running does is it makes me wise.
-somehow i feel that my energy is more balanced when i run..
-i’m honest with myself
-i get to stretch like a cat before and after
-i get to really breathe
-it’s when my skin (and body) gets to cry (with joy)
-i know i don’t have to prove anything to anyone, not even to myself
-running loves me :)

daily. cuz i like it and its a easy free benefit to living

& drop a lot of weight before I can run. This will be a long-range goal. Years ago, I could run a mile in 5 minutes, 15 seconds. Now I am carrying too much weight to run at all. Too tough on my knees. Now to change that.

It’s cold and dark, but I will go running saturdays and sundays while everybody is still sleeping. Starting November 28th (right after my exams). It doesn’t matter if it rains or not, I WILL GO !!

Im going to this later in 2 hours time. If i dont, i have to finish marking my composition by today.

is not going too well… It rains frequently and it’s pretty cold in the evenings. It’s a challenge to go running these days.

Daughter and I jogged and chatted for 2km.
Back is still tender, but it felt good to run again.
Must take this easy, when I would rather push it.

^{50 year old backs. Sigh.
The treadmill is gentler on it than the grassy paths.}

today I drove to the bottom of the big hill with the dog, we parked and ran up it…......up,up, along, up, down the stairs, turned around and back up the stairs ( there are over 100 stairs, very steep :) 0, along, back down the big hill and then turned around and did the whole thing over again. About 40 minutes in total. The bonus of this run was the absence of traffic and goats.

I do odd “random” runs at the moment, but would love to do it more regularly and so that I can’t wait to get out there. I need a little self motivation…3 times a week would be great to start with.

it wasn’t pretty but we made it. the dog had a goat incident on the way home though. we came around the corner on the road and there were two white goats standing there looking at us…...... Duke took off after them with me yelling at him. Once he has something like a bird or wild animal in chase there is no stopping him. It was some un needed stress at the end of an otherwise stressfree run :)