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April 13, 2006
Harmonizing with Something
Has any one see the truly ridiculous but still entertaining movie, Failure to Launch? In this movie, Matthew McConaughey is first at odds with nature. When the rest of his life is disharmonious, his interactions with nature are also disharmonious. His hand gets bit by a rare reptile, he gets attacked by a chipmunk, he wrecks his mountain bike, that kind of thing. After he straightens out his life, he also seems to be in harmony with nature. Nothing seems to want to attack and kill him anymore.
I proceeded through my running in fairly harmonious fashion today. I'm not quite sure why nature loved me, but I'll take it. First, there was a raging wind for the first half of the day. There seemed to be some sort of front pushing through, and I dreaded going out to run in it. I put off running as long as I could with the excuse that I had "other" things to do, when really I just talked on the phone to a bunch of friends. Then, when I finally sucked it up and went out there, the wind had calmed and it was warm and sunny. I ran through the lightest of breezes in a t-shirt and shorts, and it was heavenly. Second, I ran about 3 feet from a herd of deer and they just stood there looking at me. I see this and other nearby herds of deer all the time, and usually they wig out immediately, heading for the hills. Today, they just sat/stood/gazed at me as I went by. The weirdest thing, but I was harmonizing with something.
I ran two easy, short runs for a total of 9.5 miles today. I missed a day earlier in the week due to traveling and exhaustion and I'm trying to make up for it with a few extra miles here and there. I meant to run a few more miles in the second run, but I ran out of daylight.
Posted by Meghan at April 13, 2006 8:45 PM
Comments
I thought that movie was ridiculous and yet funny and cute too :) I am glad to hear you are harmonized with nature!
I am really hoping that the season of wind in the Rockies is almost over. That would be really nice!
Posted by: barb at April 14, 2006 10:21 AM
Thanks for the movie idea! I need a comedy right now :)
Happy Running!
Posted by: bridget at April 14, 2006 10:55 AM