Sometimes what I do really can't help but make me thankful for what I have.
My babies (even at 6-yrs old still "my baby") are beautiful and healthy. Thank you.
Please let me never take them or their health for granted.
Please give me the strength to love them as deeply and completely as they deserve. Don't hold back.
Thank you for allowing me to love them and know them and delight in them.
Please let me touch and feel and hold them until my last breath and beyond.
Nothing like a little work transferance to really bring home what's important.
I really wanted to pray tonight. I think I just did.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Amazing Morning Run - lessons learned
So Below is my long winded post about a regular morning run. I realized after I posted it in my online running group that I've never written so much about any run ever--- even my marathon! So I figure that maybe I should be putting it in my blog that I've abandoned and have been considering starting back up. So here it is. As of for the blog..... I don't know where it's going or what it'll really be about, but for me it's all about family, kids, and running, so it's likely to be about all those things.
59:20mins / miles 6.1
omg!!!! a gift from the running gods!
perfect weather, no time constraints (thank you summer vacation), and no watch.... I'll explain more after a shower and I get to work.
later: So I definitely have a cold. I'm not dying but the nose is getting runnier and the phlem is yellow and there's some coughing. So I could have easily stayed in bed. I wanted to stay in bed. but a peek out the window showed a cloud cover and the temperature prediction was only in the 70's for today ----- If you don't know the central valley in California you don't know what an amazing gift this is. usually it's 100 - degrees by now and running at even 5am is a bit miserable----- and then too I thought I don't feel awful now but what if I feel worse later this week and I really can't go out for a run or can't go to yoga tomorrow...... take advantage while you can. So I did. It was a little later than I would usually go but since school is out it really didn't matter, especially if the weather is cooperating. I held in my coughing fit and nose blowing until I was out the door and across the street as not to wake the natives in my house. I had a moment of wondering how this was going to go because I could feel the coating for phlem on my lungs. but honestly just being outside in the beautiful cloud covered slightly cool breezy morning was enough to make it all worth it. I was in love with the morning. So on my .25 walk I stretched and hatched up the inner lining of my lungs and really started to feel better. I had my 4.75mile route mapped out in my head. I even knew what I could do to add a mile to it if I really wanted too. no pressure though. Before I got to the corner I made the decision to take off my watch. I've been feeling alittle chained to my watch on my runs lately. Not really sure why but even just having it on was getting to me a bit. I've been thinking about running with out it for the last few runs so today I decided I would start it at the beginning of my route and leave it and pick it up on my way back. It was great! I immediately felt better, lighter, and was glad I'd know my time but not be obsessed with it. So, out I went. I route and weather was good. The lungs were good. The legs were good. not far into the run I was seriously considering extending the run. When I got out to the fields I looked longingly at them but didn't head out that far.... there was no way to change your mind once your out in the potatoe fields. This started me thinking about the difference between running outside and in the gym on a treadmill. Outside once you're out, you're out. There's no stopping and walking to the car just a few feet away. For me, even if I want to quit once I'm on the road, I keep going mostly because I know if I keep running I'll get home faster. running on the treadmill has always been mentally much tougher for me. (There's a chance I may be religated to a treadmill in the future but we'll see what comes.) I make the turn at 2.5 miles knowing that I can still complete the original route or I can make the turn in half a mile. I see the route in my mind and it is definitely the longer route. I feel good. No struggle, so let's do it. Somewhere after a few turns I start to see another alternative route form in my mind. I could just keep going straight and add a little more to this run....... I hit the intersection and I keep going straight!!!! I feel awesome! awesome that I chose to keep going! awesome that I have this much in me! In the last mile I try to start calculating the miles and I think I may have added a mile or at least a half a mile (that one street always throws off my calculations!). Without my watch I'm not sure of my pace. I know it's at least a 10 minute mile. It could be less but probably not by much, I settled in and didn't push too hard. (For half a mile there was a woman with a dog on the other side of the street and she passed me. I was a little bummed and thought "wow- I wonder what her pace is... not too much faster but fast enough to pass me...." I almost changed directions completely to follow her but that might be stalkerish and I need to run my own race.) When I picked up the watch it said less than an hour so either I ran way faster than it felt or my extention wasn't as long as I thought, but the milisecond of disappointment in my time vanished immediately because it was a beautiful run and I had more than a few moments where I knew that if I had the time and no one would worry about if I was kidnapped or not I could have ran for another hour without a problem. loved it. (obviously! look how much I wrote about it! )
So many lessons learned so early in the morning!
59:20mins / miles 6.1
omg!!!! a gift from the running gods!
perfect weather, no time constraints (thank you summer vacation), and no watch.... I'll explain more after a shower and I get to work.
later: So I definitely have a cold. I'm not dying but the nose is getting runnier and the phlem is yellow and there's some coughing. So I could have easily stayed in bed. I wanted to stay in bed. but a peek out the window showed a cloud cover and the temperature prediction was only in the 70's for today ----- If you don't know the central valley in California you don't know what an amazing gift this is. usually it's 100 - degrees by now and running at even 5am is a bit miserable----- and then too I thought I don't feel awful now but what if I feel worse later this week and I really can't go out for a run or can't go to yoga tomorrow...... take advantage while you can. So I did. It was a little later than I would usually go but since school is out it really didn't matter, especially if the weather is cooperating. I held in my coughing fit and nose blowing until I was out the door and across the street as not to wake the natives in my house. I had a moment of wondering how this was going to go because I could feel the coating for phlem on my lungs. but honestly just being outside in the beautiful cloud covered slightly cool breezy morning was enough to make it all worth it. I was in love with the morning. So on my .25 walk I stretched and hatched up the inner lining of my lungs and really started to feel better. I had my 4.75mile route mapped out in my head. I even knew what I could do to add a mile to it if I really wanted too. no pressure though. Before I got to the corner I made the decision to take off my watch. I've been feeling alittle chained to my watch on my runs lately. Not really sure why but even just having it on was getting to me a bit. I've been thinking about running with out it for the last few runs so today I decided I would start it at the beginning of my route and leave it and pick it up on my way back. It was great! I immediately felt better, lighter, and was glad I'd know my time but not be obsessed with it. So, out I went. I route and weather was good. The lungs were good. The legs were good. not far into the run I was seriously considering extending the run. When I got out to the fields I looked longingly at them but didn't head out that far.... there was no way to change your mind once your out in the potatoe fields. This started me thinking about the difference between running outside and in the gym on a treadmill. Outside once you're out, you're out. There's no stopping and walking to the car just a few feet away. For me, even if I want to quit once I'm on the road, I keep going mostly because I know if I keep running I'll get home faster. running on the treadmill has always been mentally much tougher for me. (There's a chance I may be religated to a treadmill in the future but we'll see what comes.) I make the turn at 2.5 miles knowing that I can still complete the original route or I can make the turn in half a mile. I see the route in my mind and it is definitely the longer route. I feel good. No struggle, so let's do it. Somewhere after a few turns I start to see another alternative route form in my mind. I could just keep going straight and add a little more to this run....... I hit the intersection and I keep going straight!!!! I feel awesome! awesome that I chose to keep going! awesome that I have this much in me! In the last mile I try to start calculating the miles and I think I may have added a mile or at least a half a mile (that one street always throws off my calculations!). Without my watch I'm not sure of my pace. I know it's at least a 10 minute mile. It could be less but probably not by much, I settled in and didn't push too hard. (For half a mile there was a woman with a dog on the other side of the street and she passed me. I was a little bummed and thought "wow- I wonder what her pace is... not too much faster but fast enough to pass me...." I almost changed directions completely to follow her but that might be stalkerish and I need to run my own race.) When I picked up the watch it said less than an hour so either I ran way faster than it felt or my extention wasn't as long as I thought, but the milisecond of disappointment in my time vanished immediately because it was a beautiful run and I had more than a few moments where I knew that if I had the time and no one would worry about if I was kidnapped or not I could have ran for another hour without a problem. loved it. (obviously! look how much I wrote about it! )
So many lessons learned so early in the morning!
- talk yourself into something, not out of it.
- accept gifts, even if they are hard to accept. the reward it worth it.
- listen to your heart, don't fight your desires, lose the watch every once in a while.
- visualize
- give yourself options and take them!
- relish in your victory (even on a regular day morning run!)
Now if only I didn't have to go to work and I could have crawled back in bed for even 30 minutes then it would have been a fully mind blowing experience! ha!
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