Saturday: This morning I looked at my watch when I started to run and decided to just keep running until I got tired. I ran 6 minutes without stopping. Part of what may have maintained my stamina was that it was a very cool and overcast morning, and I was afraid that it might rain. I wanted to finish my run before any rain came. I was also afraid that if there was a storm coming, maybe lightening would develop. What do you do if you are in the middle of a run and lightening develops, and there is no quick way to get indoors? I have to figure out a plan for that so I’m prepared if it ever happens.
Sometimes I like to pretend things as I’m running, to make the time go faster. Today I pretended that my feet were tennis rackets and the earth was the tennis ball. I really tried to hit that tennis ball back everytime my feet touched the ground and bounce back off the earth forward until my other foot hit the ground and I could bounce forward again, continuously moving forward to my destination.
This weekend I didn’t feel quite as out of breath as I have in the past. Coincidentally, I recently had one of my routine CT scans. Reading the results is funny because they seem to put a lot of information in the description about all the different organs they see in the scan. I’ve just never heard of my organs being described before, and so to me it’s funny. The results said something about my fully expanded lungs, or something like that. It seemed like they were saying I have very healthy lungs. As I felt out of breath, I remembered my fully expanded lungs and I said to myself, “You’ve got great lungs so just run, baby, run!”
Another time when I was feeling tired, I thought of the deep dish pizza I had eaten the night before, and that gave me motivation to keep on going.
Sunday: Ran (mixed with walking) for an hour today, of unknown distance. Because of cloudy skies and because I didn’t have a ride back, I ran halfway to the next town and then turned around, finding some outdoor stairs to incorporate into my workout. It was fun to try something new and to incorporate running up and down the stairs into my running routine.
I ran for 7 minutes straight today without needing to stop and walk. I can feel the muscles in the back of my legs and my glutes now when I run, and they feel sort of stretched out, but comfortably so, so that I like the way they feel when I run. They are comfortable, or, I have found a comfortable position while running. It makes me want to run and feel my stretched out muscles. Makes me feel healthy, and like I’m toning my muscles and also (hopefully) improving my metablolism.
It was a cool day for running today and the cool breeze felt good. When I am running, I feel self-reliant, like I can depend on my body and depend on myself. It makes me feel powerful and free.