4-mile brain dump
On nights like this I need a recorder. In the course of 4 miles tonight, I thought about a lot of things more than usual. I’m not sure why — I think after a bad night’s sleep from my son being sick, my mind was oddly clear from being tired. Weird, huh?
Anyway, climb aboard and get inside my mind. Here are some of the things I thought about tonight:
- I’m really craving spring. I do love the cold, but if it’s not going to snow, just let it be warm. My cold tolerance though is pretty awesome now. At a comfortable 40 degrees at 7 p.m., I wore shorts with no gloves and nothing over my ears.
- The old me wouldn’t be running 4 miles for no reason. Maybe 2 or 3. Not 4. While Shamrock is mostly out of the question, I’m running now for the sake of having better runs later this year. I’m not starting over at point zero no matter how hard my body pushes back.
- Speaking of later this year, I thought about whether or not my body could handle a marathon again this fall. My approach to running now may answer this question in a few months.
- I want to run a 5k … but boy do I hate the thoughts of paying to run that distance. But paying makes me run faster.
- Hills are never easy.
- The moon is very nice tonight — it’s like a smiley face.
- People really should figure out how to shut their dogs up instead of putting them in the front yard to bark their heads off.
- The most overwhelming thought tonight was how good I felt … slow, but good. I’ve come a long way in the past couple of months and I have a long way to go, but I feel really good about where things stand.
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“My approach to running now may answer this question in a few months.”
What’s this? What’s the approach? Is it in the book I kicked under the bed? Dammit. I’m going to have to read that, aren’t i? Grr, you.
I like your stream of thoughts. It makes 4 miles pretty significant.
I enjoy the thoughts that run through my mind during runs. I solve a couple problems, I remember a moment fondly, or embarrassingly, and sometimes just completely random stuff pop in my head!
I had the same thought about hills on my last run after running up a couple that made me grunt and nearly cry with relief at the top.
Foudn your blog through Jen’s! I have similar thoughts on runs, though they are often punctuated with the thought of “OMG just breathe already! get up that hill, get down that hill”
And you aren’t slow! Thats my category.