LIFE

If someone were to ask me "why do you run", I'd probably just give them a simple answer like, "I love it", but there is more behind that answer, it goes so much more deeper than just loving it. I love the training itself for the release it gives me, for the distraction from work and life that it provides. It has gotten me through depression and aggression. I've been down the hole and back. I love racing because I love the competition! I love the sense of peace I get when I'm out on a run. In all reality, I grasp the vibrancy of just being alive because I'm all too aware of my own mortality. I'm sure that you are too. I know I'm going to get old one day and not be able to run, not have that release or drive to stay in shape; improve. We are all ultimately headed in the same direction. I know it. You know it. Why do so many of us move through life so fast, always looking towards the future while rarely enjoying the present? I don't have an answer for that one. I do know that I have a dream, and I'm really striving to achieve it. I don't want to be just normal. I don't want to be a celebrity. I just want to know, when I'm old and tired, that I tried my hardest; did everything that I could to achieve my dream because I believe it is possible. 

September 8th-Monday: Day off :)

September 9th-Tuesday: 3mi.-(29:15) at 4:28pm on some steep, gnarly trails

September 10th-Wednesday: Hill repeats/Tempo with the team-(1.5wu-13:20, 4mi. tempo-26:24, 5.5cd-44:36-just over 4 with Mr. Collins) It was nice to talk about training and marathons; made the miles go by quickly.
11mi. total on the day

September 11th-Thursday: An easy 3mi.-(25:50) at 6:04am. 5mi.-(39:52) at 5:50pm

September 12th-Friday: An easy 4mi.-(32:28) at 6:18am. Another 4mi.-(30:41) at 1:04pm in my racing shoes

September 13th-Saturday: An easy 3mi.-(24:35) at 9:13am

September 14th-Sunday: Lone Gull 10k PR! :)-(1.7wu, 10k Race-36:53!-5:57 pace, and 1.2cd) An easy 3mi.-(NT) later on at 7:08pm...it wasn't pretty-form felt messed up..more of a limping jog than anything 
12mi. total on the day
5mi. split-PR!-(29:44) 

Running has taught me that I'm capable of more than I thought I was.

45mi. of running for the week