Fit-to-Fat-to-Fit Blog: The deafening sound of silence

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.