Today, my little Nike ipod and I reached the 100 mile mark. I have been walking for years, well ok I've been walking since 8-months but that is not what I am talking about. Even though I walked my first marathon for Team in Training in support of Leukemia and Lymphoma in January of 2005 (1 week shy of my 45th birthday) I have only been counting the miles with my little Nike ipod since last fall, and that only sporadically.
Last week I began training again, not for a marathon, but as if I were going to train for a marathon. I need all the inspiration I can get, because if left to my own devices, I'd sleep in, and sit and read books all hours. It isn't that I don't like the outdoors, quite the contrary, it's just that I am naturally lazy. I like lounge chairs and good books, more than I like sneakers and an elevated pulse.
Tonight, though when I went out, the breeze was wonderful, the sky grew increasingly pink around the western edge, and the colors of the landscape take on an almost iridescent hue. I walked down a little lane, I hadn't walked before, and it is only two miles from my door. The breeze was stirring the leaves in the branches and it almost sounded like running water in the background. It was worth going outside for that.
Tomorrow, I plan on getting in another 2-3 miles. Writing this in a journal may make me less resistant to slacking off. Who knows? If all goes along as I hope, I'll have another marathon under my belt.
-later
No comments:
Post a Comment