Monday, March 8, 2010

Sunday Sermon

I pray to the church of running. I wake up at 7 am on Sundays to hydrate, stretch and run. And run. And run. Yesterday 9.5 miles. Next week 11. And next month, I'll be running further than I ever have in my life.
Runs like yesterday's make me wonder, how can anyone NOT like running? You get in a groove, forget you're even moving. I ran along the American River bike trail - birds chirping, sun shining, rowers shouting on Lake Natoma. Bikes whizzing by, runners waving a friendly, "good morning!"
To think - I could have slept in - could have gone to the donut shop. I didn't. I ran. And ran. And ran instead.

2 comments:

Jess said...

I'm always impressed with people who run. Especially because I hate it! It's boring and I'm always in pain and my asthma sucks painful breaths right out of me :) I'm much more of a sports girl - I'll play sports all day long.

Are you going to run a marathon? Hope everything is going well!

ElegantSnobbery said...

Oh you are so good. I totally would have slept in. And then tried to convince you to make me waffles or banana bread.

So glad you're running and loving it!!