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Rainy Friday

Keep Running Girl

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I can hear the rain outside as I get ready.  There’s a sound the wet highway makes outside my building and I’ve learned to judge how bad it is by the sound.  I’m not looking out the dark windows.  I don’t need to.

It’s an important workout today.  40T The first one of the cycle.  Sure I have more than enough time to make up any fitness if I skip but missed runs are a bad habit that I don’t want to start.  It chips away.

I check my phone out of habit.  No text.  No email.  I feel a thin, sharp, stab in my chest that I’m not prepared for.  A splinter working its way out.  I refuse to give it any more thought.

I change clothes again.  I never know what to wear in this weather.  You will be wet.  Your hands will be wet.  Your feet will get soaked.  It’s too cold to enjoy the rain.  You can either over dress or be wet and cold.  It’s about minimizing discomfort.  There is no comfortable.

I procrastinate as much as possible before I head out.  I get three floors down before deciding that the cold and the wet are unacceptable.  I turn around and walk three floors up before deciding that I’m more intimidated by my run than I am of the rain.  Discomfort is a poor excuse and being comfortable is only seen as the default for the spoiled. 

I turn around and walk the five flights down and out of my building before I lose momentum.  The rain is cold and hurts my face but I am determined.  My workout calls for 10 minutes warm up, 20 minutes gaining steady speed to 5K, 10 minutes cool down.

I speed up.

I speed up.

I tune out the rain and the cold and the sloshing in my shoes.  I tune out the one or two other runners I see on the piers. 

I am alone. 

I am getting faster.

I am uncomfortable.

The mile clicks over as I hit my last two fast minutes.  I hit 7:35 pace and hold on.  For those two minutes my lungs are on fire, burning out the splinter.  I am running ugly but I am running fast.

And then I’m done.  It’s the cool down.  I am soaked and I am cold and I am uncomfortable but I am damn happy with myself.  

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Dave

And that's as it should be. Among all the things you do for others, this is for you, and you deserve it.

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garbanzo a gogo
1 hour ago, Keep Running Girl said:

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in my defense, the comment was up for almost two hours. snooze, lose. i look forward to the app that tests your sobriety before allowing comment. 

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Keep Running Girl
13 minutes ago, garbanzo a gogo said:

in my defense, the comment was up for almost two hours. snooze, lose. i look forward to the app that tests your sobriety before allowing comment. 

No dice. Those are the best comments!! :D

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