Monday, October 24, 2011

Day 55 (10/23): 6 miles / 53:38

I have no idea how I ran this a minute and a half faster last weekend.  I gave this one my all.  Must have been the 2 extra days off this week.

Nevertheless, despite how it sounds, I'm not at all disappointed in today's run.  It was another beautiful day and I'm rather enjoying my 6 mile route.  Well, aside from passing the most amazing smell of burgers and fries at lunch time.  I will definitely have to find an alternate route for the days when I don't eat lunch until after my run.  I tell you, if I carried money with me when I ran, I might be tempted to stop for lunch right in the middle of those 6 miles.  And something tells me that might defeat the purpose.

And aside from the area around Red Robin, where I spent my time wiping the drool from my chin instead of the sweat from my brow, I spent the majority of my run thinking about my most recent non-fiction read: "The Necklace" by Cheryl Jarvis.  It's a story of 13 women who pool their money to buy a diamond necklace and share it.  It becomes an interesting experiment and changes each of their lives in its own way.  Very intriguing.  Nevertheless, it has reminded me of my goal to get involved with more charity work and I spent a good bit of time trying to think of ways I might do that.  The women in this book get involved in some pretty wonderful things and I started to think about what my friends and I might be able to accomplish if we worked together on a charitable cause.  Much like my legs, my mind was racing with little ideas and I can't wait until tomorrow to email them and see what they think. 

Not that I have any idea how I'm going to fit yet another project into my already busy day, but this is one I'm definitely going to make work.

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