Started running in earnest this week...4 miles on the treadmill Saturday, 4 miles Monday, 3 yesterday with an incline of 1%. And started thinking about the benefits of running. It will make me stronger, younger, sexier, and happier overall. I also enjoy the peaceful restful trance I get into and the relaxed way I feel after running.
So the goal is to run the 10K this weekend, Pacific Crest half-Marathon in July, and then the Portland marathon in October. What an accomplishment that will be! Someone addicted to cigarettes and beer (yum!).
My mind loves to get into logical traps. Running helps give me a way out of the maze, the dead ends I encounter, the moral conundrums that rear up and engulf us. This is an offshoot of our left brains demanding answers that are either/or, yes/no, 1 or 2. What is sad is that it takes so long for us to realize this. For example, I love chess and math - things that have answers, that are not nebulous or gray. Our society has evolved tremendously with these tools but also suffers as the essential mysteries do not yield themselves to logic. Faith and logic - ever battling, ever entwined, never reconciled.
So the goal is to run the 10K this weekend, Pacific Crest half-Marathon in July, and then the Portland marathon in October. What an accomplishment that will be! Someone addicted to cigarettes and beer (yum!).
My mind loves to get into logical traps. Running helps give me a way out of the maze, the dead ends I encounter, the moral conundrums that rear up and engulf us. This is an offshoot of our left brains demanding answers that are either/or, yes/no, 1 or 2. What is sad is that it takes so long for us to realize this. For example, I love chess and math - things that have answers, that are not nebulous or gray. Our society has evolved tremendously with these tools but also suffers as the essential mysteries do not yield themselves to logic. Faith and logic - ever battling, ever entwined, never reconciled.
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