T minus 20 Days, Wednesday, July 25th, 2012: “Be
A Kid”
Like I’ve said the last few days, I’m on this crappy shift
right now (11 p.m. to 8 a.m.) and I’m pretty tired during the day, in general.
I’ll get up about four or five hours after getting home (I’m pretty excited
when I hit the five hour mark!) and then I’ll get up, eat, bum around, doze,
bum around, doze, eat, doze and get ready for work again. I’ve been pretty good
about getting a workout into that mix most days but it’s been hard…the motivation
is low! Today was a day in which I convinced myself to go for a run…it took a
couple hours to convince myself. I started running around 8:15 p.m. And, I won’t
lie, by then I’d almost resigned myself to failing to complete some challenge
for today.
But, while I was running, I kept thinking… I passed a little
park and thought, “Oh, be a kid! That’d be fun!” But, there were no swings. And
that’s my favorite part of a park. What a lame park. So, I kept running. Then,
when I was about a mile from home, I remembered how much fun it was to skip
when I was a kid. So, I started to skip. At first, I felt pretty silly because I’m
an adult, out for a run on a Wednesday night, on a road that gets plenty of
traffic and I was skipping. But, after a bit, that feeling went away as I started
having fun skipping. I realized that I started skipping to the beat of my
music. And my arms were swinging along in big arcs. And then, I started doing
little dance steps in the middle of skips as I was running. And, before I knew
it, I was REALLY enjoying my run! The sun was down, there was a nice breeze,
the music was good, and I was skipping/dancing/running along for the last mile until I got home. And, I
was kind of disappointed that I didn’t really have time to keep running! Some
people may have to pick their jaws up at that statement coming from me…
Most people know I don’t really love running. I’ll do it but it’s not my first choice of exercises.
I’ve enjoyed some runs here and there, mostly not here…in Houston. I find my
lungs don’t much care for the air here. But, I’ve had some great runs out in
the country when I’m visiting my family in MN. I can honestly say, however,
that tonight was one of my very favorite runs I’ve ever had. And it’s all
because of the skipping. So, if you were driving down South Shore Harbor Blvd.
sometime between 8:15 and 9 p.m. Wednesday night, and saw some freak bopping
along, spinning and waving her arms, that was me. Having fun skipping on my
run.
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