Let me start with an enthusiastic round of applause to my friend the amazing Secret Sara who completed Trailwalker yesterday! Well done you legend!
The Bastard Sinuses are really putting up a fight this time Ha! I, and my antibiotics, laugh with scorn at them! Haha! so I'm running at about 75% energy at the 'mo. These things happen. No dramas apart from daylight savings ending sob - and by the way, summer 2010-11, that was a poor effort! Booo! and Noddie still getting up at the same time. Le sigh. I still put 22km in the marathon bank, and finished another piece of uni work from the now-ever-so-slightly-less-daunting mountain.
I ran along the rail trail yesterday. It's so pretty there, and level, and there are no cars excuse me LBTEPA, Captain Obvious would like his cape back which makes it much easier to switch off and kind of float on top of the physical effort. I was talking to some blokes at a work thing during the week who could not comprehend how moving doggedly along for 3+ hours could be something I look forward to. I could only give them the same answer I gave Noddie when she asked me did you enjoy your run Mummy? I replied it was satisfying on many levels. Poor kid.
I don't run for fun. Running for a long time is not fun. I run because I like it. I like being strong and (relatively) healthy and doing hard stuff that takes a long time to prepare for. I like showing off and feeling a bit smug and surprising people when they ask me what I do in my spare time, and I'm prepared to work bloody hard for that! I like having something in my life that's just there becuase I want to do it. No other reason. It's mine.
And there's the bling too of course.
Or maybe with this
More anon, lunatics!
6 much-appreciated comments:
Thanks Al! I am 10 x more impressed with your marathon plans- you have enormous dreams and I enjoy coming along for the ride. Hope you get a few more satisfying runs in without the sinus infection!
Sara
You are too much! Love it!
honestly, i find it odd that you don't run for fun. am i the only person on the planet that actually finds it to be fun? say it isn't so...
Dairy! watch the dairy (for the sinuses).
They can really make you feel shite, man.
If you have not been to see an ENT surgeon, see a naturopath - a lot of people swear by them - usually they recommend to knock off the dairy and this often works.
who you kiddin? We know its fun, in a masochistic kinda way :-)
I love your reasons for running, especially this one: "I like having something in my life that's just there becuase I want to do it. No other reason. It's mine."
freakin' lovely :)
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