I actually felt excited about doing my run this evening, and I expected it to be really easy both because I was excited and because after the big 20 minute run at the end of week 5, I only had to do a 5min, 8 min, 5 min run interval pattern today. Nope, it wasn't easy. For a little while I recounted what day it was, because I felt so weak I thought I must have miscounted and run on a rest day...
After the five minute walk, the running started and I headed for our main drag, but there was an ambulance, firetruck, and lots of shady-looking people about, so I decided to head the other direction down the irrigation canal bank. One can go for miles along the canals in this valley. It was wonderfully serene along the canal, there was no one else there but me, and it felt like I was running a long way. I kept thinking of that Ray Bradbury story "The Pedestrian" where no one is outside except the main character...everyone is inside watching tv. I'd never been along the canal before, even though we've lived here forever, and it was cool to see all the gateways to go off on other streets...potential running paths for future runs.
Towards the end of the 8 minute interval I started feeling strong...but still had the brain going back and forth between continuing to run and thinking I couldn't go farther. It felt best when I could just turn off my brain and wallow in the rhythm and senseless moving...like a meditative state.
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