Thursday, 12 March 2009

Do you Know you're running?

I decided not to have any new years resolutions because they, in themselves, have no resolve.
Instead, I've become more resolute, and in so doing, I've started running and logging my runs Run Fat boy run

My thoughts along these runs are changing progressively every time i run.

Today I got lost and in this state of loss my thoughts let loose.

I was on a run. This was what I had planned to do...run.
So as long as i kept running, I wasn't lost.

So I kept running. This would have been fine if I could just concentrate on running.
Instead, I kept thinking that perhaps I was going in the wrong direction.
Then I saw it - Willen lake. What a serendipitous find.
Could i be lost if I had found something?
Could I find something without looking for it?

It was beautiful. Rippling in the wind yet still calm, in contrast to my heavy unsymmetrical breathing.
It was cold and fluid, like the breeze that ran over it, again contrasting to the sweat that dripped from my boiling skin.

As beautiful and calming as that was it wasn't the plan. I took it in and continued.
Running then stopping when I got tired or when I thought I was tired.
I made it home, eventually but that again, wasn't the point. The point was i ran.

And the point to this blog is not that I ran, but that I wrote.

Whats your point? What is your plan - Not for the future but for right now? What do you want to do?


1 comment:

  1. I LOVE THIS... there you go again with the what do you want to do? But that's not the point vee, the point is you ran, you blogged, you lived, lost and found. And it really doesn't matter what you do, as long as it goes down in the history books that you ran.

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