Well todays post starts last night after a great morning I had got ready for work and headed in. Throughout the work day I kept thinking why cant I rewind to watching the sunset after a good run? Things were so simple and worry free...I liked it and could not wait to do it again this morning.
This is where reality sets in. I come home after work exhausted and ready to go to bed but I had a test I had to take online for one of my classes and so I sat down and completed that. Which after the day of work I had my mind was just not functioning anymore so I did not do as well as I could have on the test. So just ready to have this day behind me I headed to bed making sure to take my phone with the preset alarm with me. I was out within minutes in a deep comfortable slumber.
The night was a rough one with my daughter fussing throughout the night. The nice thing about my daughters rough nights is she gets uncomfortable so you just have to go help her get comfortable again and she goes right back to sleep which allows my wife and I to go right back to sleep as well. However, last night she decides that she is going to be uncomfortable a lot which meant a reoccurring wake up call every half hour to hour all night.
The 5:00am wake up call came and went as I recall turning it off not with the thought of "It's time to run" but more like "Hurry shut it off so it does not wake the baby up!" so needless to say I did not get up at 5:00am.
I did get up though, around 6:00am I pulled myself our of bed to begin my run.
It was colder outside than it was yesterday so I had to wear an extra layer of clothes and a pair of gloves to combat the low temperatures. With the music in my ear and my shoes laced up I decided to do the exact same run as I did yesterday without timing myself. For some reason as I was getting ready to start the run the old saying crossed my mind. "A watched pot never boils." I used this mentality thinking that if I concentrate just on time I might get discouraged and stop before I get started on this quest. I know every person is different and they have to make their own plans and routines and mine is still being configured at this point. So I did without the timer today and just ran with the focus of just enjoying the run.
And so it was the run went well just me,music and the very cold morning. One thing you have to understand is that I was raised in the desert and this meant afternoon cross county practices in August and September and April and May track practices with temperatures well in the 90's. This cold weather running is new to me and my lungs were wondering what they did to deserve this torture I was putting them through. I completed the two laps in what I am sure was a slower time than yesterday. Right now I am trying to focus on consistency and routine. Consistently getting out there no matter what the circumstances and trying to see the results as I continue to go.
Once again after the run I took a few moments to meditate as the sun rose up over the hills illuminating the sky before me. If I were to take a bottle to put how I feel at this very moment and store it for the stresses I am sure to face throughout the day I would have the greatest stress cure in the world. With all that science figures out in this world this would be my request to them. Make bottled sunrises and sunsets to carry with you in your pocket so that one can open it up when life throws it ugly head ones way and make everything disappear just for a moment.
