5.52 miles (total: 1534.16 miles)
What a wet, mushy, dirty, slushy run that was! Still gotta enjoy the moment. Someone asked me yesterday "what do you do when you get bored running every day? how do you keep going?" I've thought a lot about this question today while running. I think this actually says more about the person who asked me that question. They don't get it :) You see, I do it precisely because it is not something that a normal person would choose to do. The fact that it is "mundane" and continuous is precisely why I decided to do it and see what would happen if the person commits to doing something (that they normally would find exhausting, painful, boring, etc.) for extensive periods of time. It is why I want to keep going...
Remember Karate-Kid movie and Mr. Myagi's "wax on, wax off..." there is a recurring theme of "excellence in everything you do, no matter how mundane it is". It is that mundaneness that is profound in its own right. Once the question of will I go or will I not go is out of the window (it's non-negotiable) you grow to accept your limitations and get over them bit by bit.
I enjoy it the fact that I can go and run in the most dreadful conditions at god-awful hour in the middle of nowhere... most people either can't or won't (choose to) do it.
In any case, I've learned to enjoy every run, and be in that moment. Running teaches you that the only time you have is now. The moment you don't enjoy is lost forever. You've got to learn to recognize these moments (and a privilege of running) as they are happening, not an hour or a week or a year later. As I get better at seeing this, I am finding I have stopped waiting for the good times to roll. I am having the good times now. Strange, but good. And through running, I have learned that having the time of my life is often as simple as giving in to the joy of the moment (puddles and all) - no matter what :)
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