As much as I want this blog to be positive and upbeat, I can’t post anything this week unless I allow myself the honesty of saying, Sometimes running sucks. It just does. Anything you love and give your time to has its moments, right? Even people—there are people in your life you always love, but once in a while they annoy the heck out of you. And pizza. It was my favorite food as a kid, but I remember sitting in a booth at Pizza Hut feeling so stuffed I almost believed I never wanted to see a pizza again.
Sometimes I feel that way about running. Your body can get tired, but your mind can get tired, too, exhausted from waiting out the long miles every day, always chasing a distant goal only to reset the next day and chase it again. I’m so stuffed with running that I had to postpone plans to drive to the Under Armor outlet for some post-Christmas shopping. I need a new pair of running pants stat, but I couldn’t envision walking into a store full of sports gear without my stomach turning over.
I’m not a machine. I can’t simply program it all in and run on autopilot. I guess the lows are a fair price for the highs … because when the running’s good, it’s like nothing else in the world.
Maybe it is time to try running the world, instead of running around the world.
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