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May 01, 2005
Fun Run
Well, I've done a better job this week of sticking to my plan and not running extra--I only ran 2 miles over what I had planned. The extra miles were this morning, when I ran 10 instead of 8. I didn't have to be at the meeting until 11 this morning, so I was able to sleep in until a whopping 7:30! I went out the door telling myself that I would be "good" and only run 8, but I knew all along that I'd run a little extra--both yesterday and today I only had time for one workout, so I wanted to make at least one of them a bit longer. And it was so nice to be outside, even on a gray windy day, instead of in a conference room, that I had trouble making myself quit running at all--especially because I knew that I'd just have to go sit in a conference room again.
My run was really fun (sorry, I'm tired--I tried and failed to come up with a non-rhyming synonym). Since I was staying downtown, I was close to a part of the city that I usually don't run in (Capitol Hill and east to RFK stadium) and it was great to see some new terrain. It had probably been a year since I'd run over there, and I'd forgotten what a neat neighborhood it is, full of gorgeous old rowhouses. It was nice to run along imagining that I lived in one of them, thinking about walking up to the corner store with my imaginary dog to buy coffee and the Sunday paper, taking my imaginary kids to play in Lincoln Park (this imagining is a LONG time in the future).
For the last few miles of my run I came back into the downtown area, and it turned out that there was a race going on--a 10k walk/run to benefit a local charity. By the time I got there it was all families and strollers, and I enjoyed running along the other side of the street, watching all the little kids sprint for the finish, and the people who looked like they'd never jogged/walked/limped that far before grin as they finally crossed the line.
Posted by jessie at May 1, 2005 07:10 PM