What Running Has to do With World Peace….and Other Very Important Musings

I finished Week 5 of Podrunner First Day to 5k this past weekend.

The last day’s schedule was to do a 5-minute warm-up walk at the beginning, a 5-minute cool-down at the end, and 20 minutes of running in the middle.

Like….without stopping.

I really didn’t think I would be able to do it.

I WANTED to do it but my body was already tired by the time I got onto the treadmill at the end of the day.   We had had company earlier and I just wasn’t feeling the running-love.

But I had read a really short but amazing quote earlier that said this, more or less……

Have you ever felt WORSE  after a run?

(Here is where Yummy Man will yell “HECK, YEAH!” but that’s because he’s built like the opposite of a Kenyan elite marathoner and hates, hates, HATES to run.  Did I say he hates it?)

So I strapped on my Five Fingers shoes, got my iPod set, fired up the treadmill and got moving.

And I didn’t let myself stop.

Also?  I decided to think about stuff that I’d been discussing with a friend.

Deep, serious stuff.  Stuff you can’t ponder when you have 10 little bodies around all day, needing help with math and daring to expect food at meal times.

So making the decision to ponder the deep stuff helped the time go by faster.

My dad always used to say that he couldn’t figure out what 2 + 2 equaled whenever he ran.

Weird.

I could TOTALLY solve world hunger when I’m running.

Course, he has also told me that he never had one moment of pain the entire 30+ years he ran.

So I guess we’re even.

‘Cause shin splints and world peace are on the save level of importance, right?

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