TGIR!

TGIR=Thank God I Ran!

Over the last two to three weeks I have been working longer periods of the day. Since we have a set dinner time (which is of course, wonderful to eat together!) and I unfortunately do not digest food fast enough to be able to work out after eating, I have not been able to really run or swim over the last couple of weeks. How absolutely needed and incredible it felt today then to change into work out clothes and pound along the pavement. My muscles stretched and relaxed, my lungs aired themselves out, the sun and breeze flirted with my skin, my hair shook and bounced, and my skin cleansed itself through sweat and oxygen. It felt absolutely incredible! In fact, it was probably the best thing I had done for myself all week.

As much as I dislike advertisements, there is something about running ads (and ads that contain funny animals) that gets to me every time. There is a current advertisement that shows a gentleman running through a major city. However he's so covered in a mess of taxis, shouting bosses, pressing deadlines, too many people, too much nagging everything, that at the beginning of the ad, he looks like an unnatural monstrosity. It isn't until the end of the ad, after he's shed all the minute details of his stress and pressure, that he resumes his appearance as a normal human being. How true that is! For as I run, I'm not only aware of the movements of my body or of its environment interacting with it, but I'm aware of the thoughts, as I list them, one by one escaping my mind and the release that is gained as my muscles work and stress dissipates. And the feeling leaves one oh so free......

My body had been telling me all week that it needed this. That it needs to be outside, breathing, working, feeling, releasing, and so I am glad to give it what it needs and I look forward to further providing for it. I always get so frustrated that life takes over, and leaves me without time to care for one of the primary things that I need to continue to live...that of my body and that of my health. So the thing that has been on my mind all afternoon truly has been....Thank God I Ran!