Weather - 48 degrees, clouds. Ran a gentle 5 miles through the park and Busey Woods. I don't plan on running a double today, but my body is already desiring a second run. I will hopefully refrain, though, and allow my body to recover from this hard week of training. I am looking forward to doing more doubles, it is a good way to get in a lot of running practice. And, it seems to have brought me back to my childhood days - I can recall when I was 12 years old always being active - baseball, basketball, running, I was doing 5 to 6 hours of active training a day as a child. No wonder I had so much energy back then. Two of my favorite memories from childhood : 1) I would walk to my friend Rocky's home every morning before school. We would eat breakfast together and watch cartoons, and then walk to school together. One day as I was walking I decided to start running, and from that day onward I would run to his house. It gave me a feeling of joy to be running by the houses, block by block, the early morning air silent and subdued. 2) One hot summer day I went to my friend Ramon's apartment. He was inside, enjoying the air conditioning. I asked him if he wanted to play baseball across the street at the school yard. He said no way, it was too hot. I left his house soon after, wondering what I could do by myself. I put down my glove and ball on his stoop and started running around his apartment. I wasn't sure how long I was going to go, but before I knew it I had gotten to 25 and decided I was going to try to run 40 times around (probably 1 block, so approximately 4 miles). When I finished I sat on his stoop, sweaty, exhausted. Ramon came out and asked what I was doing. I told him I just finished running 40 times around his apartment building. "No way! Your lying!" "No, Ramon, I did run 40 times around, it's true" I pleaded. He wasn't buying it, so I walked home, feeling proud that I did something so hard that Ramon thought it impossible. #155 z.m. - #69
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