Well, don't that just beat all?

I'm back.

I deeply dreaded this run. In fact, I fully expected it to suck. Imagine my surprise when I head out into the gathering dark to complete my cardiovascular chore, and...it rocked!

The run was great. Even ran into my friend Megan while I was out.

Distance: 5.57 miles - not half bad!
Duration: 1 hour
Wore: support tank, sugoi, blue terry sweat pants
Temp: 47 down to a surprisingly cold 41 degrees

I started out expecting to do a specific route, but ended up improvising in the middle of my run. The plan was to do 6 miles today, but I was feeling so anti-motivated that I would have been happy with 3. It worked out that my impromptu jazz riff of a running route was practically the same distance. I had so much energy at the end of the run, that I wanted to keep going. My stride felt easy and low impact. My breath was good. I had plenty of energy in my legs. The only thing that held me back from continuing was that I was beginning to feel really cold. I think it was the difference in temperature between daylight and dusk. Wanting to stay on the safe side of getting sick, I decided to bring it on in.

And all I had to do was write a grumbling post while I slowly lured myself into running by tricking myself into getting dressed and hauling it out the door.

My speed is even picking up a bit.

Jubilation.

I even came up with a new mantra:
Once You Start, You Won't Wanna Stop.

I call it an 8-Step Mantra - because the words go over 7 steps, and the 8th step is the beat in between:
1 - Once 2 - You 3 - Start 4 - You 5 - Won't 6 - Wanna 7 - Stop 8 - (beat)

Once I got it going in the background in my head, everything suddenly got so easy...