After four days off running, I woke up to a cool, rainy day yesterday. While I usually love running in that weather, I hadn’t had much sleep the night before and the grey made me cranky. (I’m a little bit stressed about keeping this stupid gecko alive. I swear I’m worse than when I had newborns.)
Anyways, after dropping the kids off, I puttered around the house for a few minutes, making a grocery list and figuring out all random things I needed to pick up at the pet store. (Note to all considering a reptile: the animal was cheap, the stuff he needs, not so much. And I have live crickets and mealworms in my house. By choice.)
Finally, I told myself I had to run a mile. There was no way I was going to come on this blog and tell you guys I hadn’t run for a fifth day in a row. So, I headed out. And you know, that first mile wasn’t fast, but it felt pretty good. So did mile 2. And mile 3. At that point I realized I was 0.75 miles from home, so I decided to finish mile 4. And somehow, mile four became mile 5. I think I would have kept going if we’d had any groceries in the house and Jones had not outgrown every.single.pair of pants he owns.
Running is sneaky like that. I was expecting an awful run. My mind was all “blah blah blah I hate running blah blah blah”, but my body needed it. And in the end, my mind got what it needed too.
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The best.
i LOVE when that happens!!
It makes those hard/crappy/slow/ runs SO worth it.
Yeah! But rain, what’s rain? We haven’t seen that in months around here.
I need some sneaky runs to get my engine going again. Glad yours came at an opportune time. Cheers!
So awesome. That’s happened to me just a few times but it is so true that as much as you may not want too, you are always glad you did.
Yay!
Did the reptile thing when the kids were little. I never felt like I could take care of him properly and no matter what I did he always seemed cold. I finally gave him to someone with a lot more experience than me.
I hope I feel that way about running one day.
Runs are very sneaky!! I can’t run at this point in my pregnancy because my lower extremities will KILL me (imagine Achmed yelling this!) However, I go for my regular walk and have to actually remind myself verbally to SLOW DOWN otherwise I’ll have gone way further and way faster than this prego body needs! The run just seems to want to burst forth like a hungry monster!
Funny how those ones often turn out to be the best. Nice work, Mama!
Sneaky runs are the best runs.
Great run-the ones that surprise you often turn out to be some of the best!