Onto week 3! I made it through my starter two weeks and am beginning my third week of training. This week will put me back into the double-digit runs…it’s on - whether or not I am ready though luckily I think that this will be good for me. My boyfriend left for bootcamp yesterday (though the journey actually started the day before) so this week was much more emotional than usual. I decided to do a run for him yesterday. This is a tactic that I like to employ when I don’t really want to go running because it places the emphasis on the fact that sometimes when you don’t necessarily want to do something you do it for someone else. It was probably one of the best things that I did yesterday. It was unusually warm again, so I was able to go out without a jacket and in what I like to think of as my “spring” (they are black and snazzy pink) pants. I told myself that all I need to do was go out and see how I felt and that would determine how far I would go. I ran 5.5 miles from the Rondout through midtown with an uptown loopity loop and back home.
Really I needed to run to clear my head and just let everything settle in. As I was running I kept thinking “you need to be strong”. This strength isn’t found simply in the physical act of running, but I needed to remind myself to be strong in spirit and with my thoughts. In order to thrive it is up to me to make my runs (and this time) bright and thoughtful. I want to be a stronger person in all aspects of my life – to focus on making the time that I have worthwhile and meaningful. Maybe some days that is a run and others it is writing or drawing - but letting myself see where it is I would like to be.
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