Lately I have been spending more and more time
- scouring the internet for upcoming running races
- online shopping for running clothes
- talking to Bill about running
- reading running related books
- and running! I have been averaging 30 to 35 miles a week
Bill has been running too. He always makes me go faster.
In fact, I think he has the running bug now too. YAY!
Funny thing is that I have run for years. But not until this very year of my life have I actually felt like a runner. I really felt like an imposter posing as a runner. Running never felt real to me. I struggled to get out the door. I looked at running more like a chore that HAD to be done for my clothes to fit, to allow me to eat that dessert, to be able to write in my workout log-run done.
But now I see it so differently. I yearn to run. I feel incomplete if my day does not start out with the pounding of my heart and the satisfaction that I have pushed myself farther than most push all week. It feels good. I have done something for myself and made myself a better person for others. Just by running. I like that.
I am finally a runner! And it feels so good.
“Running has taken me in, and continues to comfort, heal and challenge me in all kinds of magical ways. I am not a ‘good runner’ because I am me. I am a good ‘me’ because I am a runner.” – Kristin Armstrong, Author and runner
