Aug 05 2003
Run
Breakfast of champions this morning: cramp bark, multi-vitamin, flax seed oil, black coffee. Follow with a run down the logging road (to get there, take the little path past the garden and slip under the barbed wire fence). Optional accessories: one or two dogs. This morning, there were two dogs, and we ran in age order: the 3 year old, the 10 year old, the 30-11 year old.
The morning run is the best part of the day for me. It gets me out of the house and gives me 40 or so precious minutes to myself. I miss the gym, but this will have to do for now. It feels good to be running among the ancient redwoods in the foggy morning, the air smelling like the forest and the ocean and the flowers. I can almost feel like I’m running away from everything. For a little while.
One Response to “Run”
I love sport and exercise – I can sit and watch it for hours! I admire you – I tried running in my youth but found it too boring. Though maybe now it would be different as I would use the time to take stock of my life and focus on the issues which were important to me. Your morning runs are a good time to look within and find solutions to any problem which could exist.