Freethinker ~ Freerunner

It was nice and cool this morning at about 26 degrees.  The wind was almost non-existent so it was not too bad.  I probably could have had another layer though, as my forearms got a little cold on the last 5 miles.  

I felt good physically and no sense of injury in either foot, although my left foot seems to have a few lagging pains as I walk around my house this morning.  I feel a little soreness where my toes flex back as I walk, but I think it is just the normal after long run soreness that sometimes occurs.  

I was going to run an easy 6 today.  I probably should not have taken my head phones since my trance playlist gave me the mental boost to turn an easy six into a fast 8.  I really enjoyed my run today!  Really.  

I was running down a trail I'm very familiar with and feeling so at one with the universe.  I actually closed my eyes for several seconds several times to see how confident I was in my awareness of my body moving along in space and time.  I remember looking up at the barely visible sun behind the passing thick cloud cover feeling as if my experience, and indeed my whole life could be seen as having lived out in the blink of an eye.  I was pondering how I might look to some ancient alien race from the other side of the galaxy which had some way to witness the evolution of life on Earth.  My run today, indeed my entire life would appear to span but a brief moment in time.  It would be comparable to a human studying a mayfly, which depending on species lives a length of time anywhere from 30 minutes to one day.  For us humans who live an average of 76 years, thinking about coming into existence and then dieing off in as little as one day seems unfathomable.  Perhaps if there is life beyond Earth that has evolved longer life spans by orders of magnitude than that of a human life, it would see us live out our entire lives as we see the mayfly live out its entire life.  Even human societies and empires would rise and fall in the blink of an eye.  

Yeah, I did a lot of deep thinking today as I ran.  It was such an amazing feeling that I had to take some time to describe it here.  

It rained on me this morning.   The temperature was real nice at 58 degrees.  We must have had a warm front come through, since yesterday at 11:00 AM it was about 45 degrees.  So I left the house in warm weather running gear, shorts and short sleeves, no hat.  About 2 minutes into the run it began to poor on me.  I said to myself I should have taken my hat.  I did have a nice and easy run though. 

I am now 3 miles closer to my one thousand miles for the year.  Since I'm not directly training for anything in particular right now I decided to plan out my runs to make sure I would hit the thousand mark before the end of 2011.  It worked out pretty well by pure chance given the 8 weeks I took off this summer for injury.  

I got up at 5:30 this morning to go running at 6:00.  That would have been totally fine had I been able to fall asleep at 10:00 as planned instead of sometime after 11:00.  I've been reading Dave Ramsey's 'Total Money Makeover,' and I've been a little excited about the concepts to say the least.  

I'm looking forward to a rest day tomorrow.