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Moonlight therapy?

Ah, what a difference a good sleep makes.

Last night I finally made the zombie-walk to bed somewhere around 12:30, 1 AM. I don’t know, it was about two hours after I meant to go to bed. I was feeling depressed, overwhelmed, drained, worried. All kinds of mean nasty things.

I didn’t really sleep well, I kept waking up thinking it was time to get moving and would realize it had only been 45 minutes or an hour since I last checked the time. Hmmph.

This morning I went for a run, finally out the door right at 6 AM. The moon was setting when I left, big and bright and the sky was clear. As I finished the run and was walking back to the apartment, the sky in the east was getting lighter and turning colors that might inspire easter eggs.

And I felt a thousand percent better. I don’t know why, it just happened, and for that I’m thankful.

Have a good Friday, y’all.

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as bare as you dare

I have been laughing so hard at this today. Bwahahaha!

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“Which barefoot shoes do you have?”

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edit to say: I realize that as sporadic as I write things (and where I write various things) that you may not know this about me; so while it feels a little like stealing the punch line from a joke, I wanted to add this- I run barefoot, and have generally for almost two years. Did a couple miles this morning, in fact. I’m not preachy about it, I have heard all of these things at some point (thank you, internet). Yes, I’ve read Born to Run. I do not run in “barefoot shoes” but I do have some funky sandals I made myself from a kit (not surprisingly I purchased the kit from the guy who made this video, he’s great). I prefer to be barefoot but not if it makes other people uncomfortable.

OK, enough about that, if you wanna hear more about it just ask, I promise I will never make you take your shoes off to visit my blog.

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It occurred to me sometime today that nobody ever asks why I run. I figure it’s because looking at me, an obvious reason comes to mind – to lose weight.

The reason all of this came up is because I ran this morning. Before the sun came up, before the kids got up. Before work and school. And I asked myself, why?

A few things came to mind:

When I reach for a yogurt instead of another blueberry muffin and it’s not just because my intestines envy Jamie Lee Curtis, that’s why I run.

When I see my lumpy nekkid self in the mirror, and think maybe I’m not as lumpy as I used to be, that’s why I run.

When I climb the stairs and I’m not as out of breath as the person behind me, that’s why I run.

When I’m inspired to make a healthy choice for a meal, that’s why I run.

When I feel chest pain and think “I need to do something so I can live to see my kids grow up,” that’s why I run.

When I run out of things to blog about and can put in something as banal as “I ran this morning,” that’s why I run.

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I’m sorry, internets. I’m not neglecting you on purpose.

I’d love to pretend that I’ve been so busy being a Rock Star that I haven’t had time to blog. I’ve had time. It’s not me, it’s me. I just don’t feel like oversharing as much as I used to.

Here’s a little snippet of what’s been going on:

We sold my wife’s mom’s house. Yay! We have that behind us, after six months of fretting and working on things. We’ve learned some stuff. We hate the housing market right now (there are so many foreclosures and people trying to sell that – hell, just read a paper. It sucks) Still, it’s done.

We closed on it, and it took maybe ten minutes. There was also a four hour drive (each way) to make this happen. But the kids saw their grandparents (it’s been too long) and Dad (that would be me) tried hard not to piss everyone off (it sorta worked, for a while).

Father’s Day was low key; the way I like it. We had cupcakes, everyone went swimming, we watched geeky science shows on TV, my family cooked me a steak dinner. Pretty awesome, yes?

I’m still running; I have 23 miles so far in June, including three four mile runs. The heat is kicking my ass. Actually, it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. It was 77 this morning with a dew point of
76 or so. Yeah. But get this – I think I saw a fox this morning. Ran across the road about twenty yards in front of me, and it was pretty light out. Very slender, dog shaped, but with a bushy tail
that was almost as long as it’s body, very fast.

(disclaimer: this was toward the end of my run, so a pink girraffe on a cell phone wouldn’t have surprsised me at this point)

I’m alarmed by oil prices as much as anyone, I guess, but there isn’t a damn thing I can do about it, so I’m trying not to lose any sleep. Just watch with me while our economy follows our environment right into the crapper. Sorry, kids, we enjoyed fucking your planet up for you, maybe some of you are smart enough to recover from our mistakes.

Whew, I’m such a happy little bastard! Sorry about that. (I keep saying “sorry” and can’t seem to quit, and I think it’s driving my wife nuts, because she comments on it. Not sure what to do about it,
though. Oh, another thing that drives her nuts? That I’m ‘addicted to movies.’ Another thing I can’t seem to get out of my system. It could be whores and drugs, though, so maybe it’s not such a bad vice? And what’s with the parenthesis? Dayum.)

This is going downhill, fast, so I better just quit. Have a nice one.

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