Goal weight: 185 lbs.
Today’s weight 196 lbs.
My phone didn’t get plugged in last night. Oh the humanity, right? It was almost dead, so I left it at the house. And no phone means no music. I entered the star-filled morning in dead silence. I heard the acorns and leaves crunch beneath my feet as I walked to the corner to stretch. I could hear my breath, too. I’m really loud.
My footsteps’s sound made a comforting rhythm as I ran up the first hill. There were no air conditioners running, so the neighborhood was tomb-quiet otherwise. A dog barked in the distance. And then the world calmed like a pond after a stone was thrown into it. All I could hear was the sound of my footfalls. My mind began to wander. I thought about it being 9/11. I revisited the horrors of that fateful day eleven years ago. I could hear my heart pounding. A deer ran through the woods as I passed.
I’ll bring my phone in the future, but I’m going to occasionally leave my headphones home. I’ll engage all five of my senses. I’ll listen to my run as well.
I ran 3.4 miles this morning. It was a fast run, I ran it at my normal 5K pace of around nine-minute miles.
I completely went “headphone free” a few months ago for my early morning runs. There is something very calming about the morning before the sun comes up. I know the rest of my day will be full oh phone calls, voicemails, emails and such. That one hour of the day helps me get through the rest of the chaos that is sure to follow. Good post!
I don’t run but most evenings I go to my husbands and parents gravesite. I have no distractions other than the deer, geese, and of course mosquito’s. I enjoy the silence the time to reflect on the day and just the time alone with God. Can you do this at home? Yes, but I find distractions.
PM-wear that skeeter dope! Same for you too Marshall-the little bloodsuckers love dawn and dusk.
I was sitting outside at 330 this morning looking at the stars that seemed so close I could touch them. The waning crescent moon had risen about 30 degrees in the Eastern sky, popping up just over the trees. I craved the quiet. This illness-it makes everything LOUDERBRIGHTERSTINKYPAINFUL. I needed to get the fans and snoring husband out of my head. Wearing a jacket-and needing it-was the best part :)