A Passion for Running

not pretty, but definitely beautiful

passion for running category: running on Sunday, January 1 2006

Don’t you hate people who speak in contradictions?

Not pretty: Nothing felt natural about the first several minutes of today’s return to running. In fact, everything felt really jerky and hard.

But Beautiful: I took a one minute walk break at the 10 minute mark, reflected on my good fortune to be running again, and ran on home quickly finding a much better rhythm than I was in for the first 10 minutes. And, I felt nothing from the injury so I’m hopeful it’s fully healed.

Have I ever mentioned how much I love running?

It is indeed a Happy New Year!

11 comments

11 Comments

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Comment by Dawn (aka Pink Lady)

Sunday January 01, 2006 @

Yes, and we’re glad you do. Nice to see you back out there. Happy New Year.

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Comment by Steve N.

Sunday January 01, 2006 @

great way to start the new year!

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Comment by Adeel

Sunday January 01, 2006 @

I think there’s a tendency to start off too fast on these runs since you’re fresh, but I think you wouldn’t feel so out-of-control if you started really slowly.

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Comment by Beansprout