Started out with Lisa R, then met up with Jamie. We ran a pretty relaxed pace and extended
out the route a little bit. Ran past my house on the way back almost to
the park before turning around. It was a nice morning for running and
we saw a perfect sunrise.
In the evening I did another of Jenny's boot camps at FlexOne. Felt really good tonight and enjoyed the workout. The cardio portion had some stations which we went through once and then we had a choice of going through them again if there was time. I volunteered for another round and at least one other person did also. I hope I wasn't being too annoying for the people who did not volunteer for another round. However, everyone there is a good sport, and even when doing slight complaining seem to really appreciate the workout.
Now I need to post something that I meant to post back in the spring and have regretted not posting ever since.
When starting up training to get ready for Boston, I got off to kind of a rough start trying to stay on schedule while away for the holidays, then coming down with a pretty bad cold that lingered for weeks. I also had the start of a groin injury which would later come back to haunt me.
However, one day in March I think, it felt like things were starting to turn around and go well. And there was one morning I went out for a run and it was the perfect morning. I was doing a relaxed easy run and the sun was coming up. I thought back to when I was in third and fourth grade I was in the choir. One of the songs we sang was "Morning Has Broken", made popular by Cat Stevens (I think someone else originally wrote it a long time ago). I was thinking about that song that nice March morning and I promised myself I would blog about it. Well, I never got around to it, and then shortly after that my training went down hill, and things seemed to fall apart. It took quite some time before things got back on track as far as my running goes. I guess at the time I didn't fully appreciate how good things were.
Things are pretty good right now (not perfect, but better, and overall pretty good) and this morning was a nearly perfect morning, so, a little bit late but better late than never. Here's to the song "Morning Has Broken" and it's message. I hope I never forget it.
