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February 8, 2008
Breathe
Ahhh... I've been waiting for this moment all day...all week even and oh was it worth it!
It's been a long week. Long week of work and training and life in general. And I'm tired. When I woke up this morning I knew it would be a long day. I had a swim, my long run and of course work.
I woke up pretty tired but by the time I got going on the main set of my workout in the pool I was in the groove. Next up? Work. We have a lot of patients on our service now and I was rounding today with our attending. Our SLOW attending. He's a great doctor and takes his time with each patient which of course is awesome...but...slow. I knew we were in for it when an hour into rounds we had only finished 2 patients. FIVE hours later we were finally done. Ouch. But other than the length of the day, everything went pretty smoothly.
I didn't leave work nearly as early as I had hoped which meant I wasn't going to get to run on the trail tonight. It would be too dark by the time I got home, changed and drove to the trail as there is no lighting along it. Major bummer. I had been looking forward to that all week but I guess some times things just don't work out the way you want them too.
So instead I suited up and hit the neighborhoods.
What a relief.
Running is my peace. Unlike cycling and swimming I can just go run and not think. No worries about traffic, potholes or cadence if I'm on the trainer. No thinking about stroke or pace or what lap I'm on. Just running. I'm sure this is why I fell in love with running in the first place. I can just let my mind go blank. Which is exactly what I did because I needed to STOP thinking and just relax. I had gotten through the week alive and in one piece and now I could relax.
And my run was just awesome. It was one of those runs where you keep asking yourself "seriously?" as in "is my HR seriously that low while running this fast or is my HR monitor broken?!" or "do I seriously feel this good and fresh even after feeling tired all week?" or "is that dog seriously running at me full speed or is there a hidden leash holding him back somewhere?" :)
And now I'm in heaven. Dinner is eaten, I've showered, stretched and now I'm ready for a thumbprint cookie and some episodes of Grey's Anatomy (yeah Netflix!) while I wait for O to get home from his track meet. Life is good. Real good.
Posted by beth at February 8, 2008 8:58 PM
Comments
Yeah, life IS good...
I love the peace you have for running, I can tell you have been a runner forever. That feeling is amazing when it happens...Have a good rest day tomorrow, not too many of your Thumb Print Cookies... BIG mile Sunday....VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
Posted by: Bree at February 8, 2008 10:21 PM
you know what, i never think about anything when i run. i'm blank! it's awesome :)
kick some swim butt on sunday!!
Posted by: Audrey at February 8, 2008 10:29 PM