Chasing 3 Hours: It's Been Awhile

Chasing 3 Hours: It's Been Awhile: I haven't posted a blog since Boston.  In fact, I have done very little related to running since Boston.  No work-outs, no long runs, no...

It's Been Awhile

I haven't posted a blog since Boston.  In fact, I have done very little related to running since Boston.  No work-outs, no long runs, no writing about running, no talking about running.  Going for a run only when I felt like it, which wasn't very often.  It's been over 5 weeks and it feels right.  Sleeping in, being lazy, undisciplined, you know, normal.  Like I said, it feels right.  Normal.  Getting caught up on my long neglected yard.  Doing tasks around the house.  Heck, I just spent a Saturday, decluttering.  Seeing all the accumulated stuff in our basement (mostly kid-related) reminded me of a different time in my life.  A time when running was "just a simple hobby, a distraction."  Biding my time until the urge to set a goal returns.  Until that drive to start getting up at 0-dark thirty returns.  Or maybe it won't.  I think I am okay either way.  The fact I am writing a blog about running is telling.  Perhaps I am more ready than even know. Bottom line, not going to force it.  The way I look at it, I have 20 years or so, of  "quality" running left in these bones.  Marathon runs, 5k races, runs with friends, trail runs, runs in exotic places, wintery/snowy runs, hot/humid runs, accompanying folks on their "longest run ever," long runs with my daughter and everything in between.  It will all come back in due time