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Well, I can't stop music from playing in public places. Magic, by B.o.B was playing at some point during my run today, and this line stuck out. I like it.
So I did my 6 miler again, and I was more than energized today. I don't know if it's because I've been getting better sleep this week, or eating healthier, or because I didn't kill myself on the weights...I don't know. But I was encouraged. The miles fly by when you stop paying attention to how far you've come and how far you have to go. This blister is getting HUGE though. I think I'll keep ignoring it for awhile.
So I came home and did the usual change-stretch-water, and I picked up a running magazine that a coworker and friend had given to me. She'd given me a stack but I grabbed one that talked about beating specific marathon times on the cover. I spent a short amount of time on that particular article - mostly I read and read about all the stories and training and counting and planning and everything that runners do when they wanna run. It's insane! I'm coming from a place where I'm like, alright well I'll just run 6/7 days and keep running farther every week. And I guess I'll really put the effort in and sleep and eat healthier. But noooo...these people pay attention to every single detail! They do exercises that target specific muscles. They calculate water intake before, during, and after runs. They find out what hills are what size in which part of the race and try and run a similar route. They pay attention to the clothing, the underwear, the sunglasses, the socks, and of course the SHOES. They track their times and plan their runs like they're military, down to the second. THIS pace, THIS distance. THESE rest days. I actually felt a little discouraged by the end of the magazine. Like, I'm running the Boston, which is HUGE - all of the runners that read, contribute to, or work on that magazine would kill to run that race, and I'm just trotting in...it's not like I'm not taking this seriously. I'm putting a huge amount of work in - just not the same work that all of these runners are, or would. I almost feel like it's disrespectful! But, key word "almost" - I still work as hard for every mile as anyone else and I'm super pumped to be joining the elite ranks of runners who have ran 26.2 miles.
Ok, so right now I'm kinda breaking my Lent music thing. I say "kinda" because technically, it's because I'm doing research for the vlog I'm helping my friend make, but I am enjoying it a lot, and it is affecting my mood and things, which is why I thought it might be a good idea to stop. But it's crazy that I can feel how much it's affecting me even just after 5 days of not listening to music. It's like a drug! I just realized that.
There are so many other things I can blog about...like yesterday I went to the Museum Of Science and Technology (MOST) with a friend and it was freakin awesome. Neither of us had been there in years, and it's just as fun now as it was back then. Like, there was a ropes course maze that you had to clip yourself to and then crawl through the ropes like a spider on it's web...that was my favorite. And then we went to Pastabilities, which is this restaurant that's known in Syracuse. I'm starting to get to know Syracuse, which is pretty cool. But yeah. So much stuff going on, and my posts have tended towards the long side lately, so I'll stop here now.
Oh, except I'm gonna learn the drums. Ok, the end!
Siick! The MOST is so cool! I haven't been there since Girl Scouts when I was six. So fun! But about the running, I think there will always be people who are more into certain things than we are- we can play guitar, but then there's Jimmy Hendrix, we can play frisbee but there there's that guy Beau, cook, there's Mario Batalli, play video games, there are people who do nothing else... it goes on and on. At the end of the day there are only 24 hours for each of us and we all make choices how we want to spend them, so as long as you are satisfied with how yours are spent, there is nothing to be ashamed of. Miss you.
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