Yesterday, I ran four miles. I ran out to the deaf topiary gardens and back. Clouds were gathering over head. They were large and faded into a dark grey at their bottoms. It never rained.
I’ve not been running as much as usual lately. I’ve all the usual excuses, but really, [...]
On Saturday, I was, as a friend put it, slovenly. I lay around on the couch all day listening to the radio. I didn’t get anything done. I had all these plans, too. I was going to clean; I was going to go to the Quarter Horse Congress. I was going to play video games [...]
This is how I feel. Right now I think there could be blood seeping from beneath my eyelids. A friend told me not to run today. Like a stubborn jerk, I refused and ran. I felt like I had little specs of metal in my lungs. Grrrr.
In much better news, I just got a kitten. [...]
Today, I ran the Homestretch 20 miler. Also known as the longest training run I will do before the Columbus marathon in October. I chatted with other runners on the course, cheered on the fast people who were on their way back as I just sweated my way to the turnaround point.
I met a lady [...]
This weekend the dust was so thick on the trail where I like to run, that by the time I stopped to take off a shoe, it wasn’t the bright red and white that it was when I put it on. After my eighteen miles, I coughed and coughed. My throat was dry, no matter [...]
Training for my second my second marathon, I find that I think about food a lot lately. While I do a long run, I think about what I’d like to eat. Late at night, I think about what I shouldn’t eat. I’ve started to crave cheese. Not cheep oily cheese, either. Rich, creamy blue cheese. [...]
I get nervous. Often, I do it to myself usually. I decide that my boss wanting a meeting is a sign that she’s going to fire me. I have trouble meeting new people because I can’t talk to them.
I go to the bar down the street and get a beer and write in an orange [...]
On Sunday, I plan on running a ten miler in the ninety degree heat.
If I said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times. We runners are really stupid. We have the need to run every inch that we even think about running. There are times when just walking down a sidewalk or along a [...]
What do I want to do? I have a kickball game in an hour. I need to get ready, especially as I plan to stay on that end of town to do a run afterward. But, right now I only want to write. There are days when the feel of keys beneath fingers, holding out [...]
