today's run is one of the reasons i love this stuff

2day could have been a complete waste, but sort of demonstrates why i love doing this stuff.

It was cold, i had a ruff sleep, i was tired, dammit, and i needed my sleep, and yep, i needed 2 sleep in. BUT, i still felt the urge 2 get a run of some sort in.

But, did i say it was cold. -20+C. Sunny, but friggin' cold. But, well, i have run in colder weather, it's just starting to get weird, maybe it's a part of getting older, but i seem to chill way quicker. i use to run with a minimum look, a long sleaved t-shirt, jacket, short socks, and that was usually it.

Now it is 2 pairs of gloves, 2 shirts, a warm jacket, a belaclava, a sock hat thingie...okay, so still the short ankle high socks stick...my ankles get cold, but they look so cool!

So had breakfast, a big breakfast, checked facebook and emails, did some on-line banking, and well, by then, it's noon! How did that happen?

Still - 20C, and still sunny, bright and sunny, sonny, but ya gotta run, cause there's that urge.

Anyway, got the 2 gloves on, the warm shirt, the breathable other shirt, the big warm yellow rroom jacket, belaclava, hat, garmin in and i was gone. and who knew it snowed!...so it's either shovel, or run? hmmmmm....

The odd thing, i hate starting out on a run, or before that run. but once i start running, those first 2 or 3 steps, i feel great, into the great wide open!

The other thing, is things are going great and are going to great when i start out on a set route, one of my set routes, and i begin improvising. As on 2day. I headed out on what i'd call my lacome lake 5k loop. a loop that i've run so many times i could run it in my sleep (and i thnk i have). it's 5.15 KM, exactly, and it's easy, a couple of small hills, all paved, usually plowed, and usually pounded flat because it's a route that dog walkers use (it leds to an off leash area) and a route kids use to walk to at least 3 different schools in the area, so again, it's an easy route.

But this morning. Well i added today. Added a path through the woods, a quick run up a new paved path, and then home. A 5.15 k run became a 6.5K fun run. Speed was okay, distance felt good, and i felt good, a good run.

The best thingie, is i felt good afterwards. In fact about 6 1/2 hours later i still feel great. I may be fit, it may have added a bit more fitness to my fitness, but it was fun, enjoyable, which is the whole point. Running, biking, swimming, weights, yoga, whatever, it's gotta make u feel good, more importantly it's gotta make me feel good. i don't care about the fitness, i don't care about the health, i don't need anything else, it's just got to make me feel good, or better yet great!

And like any good drug, it just want's be to do more........

onward and upward

w