Runner's World® Complete Book of Women's Running by Dagny Scott Barrios

Author:Dagny Scott Barrios
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rodale
Published: 2012-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

TRAINING LOG

I ran in the rain today, a loamy smell escaping the warm spring earth. I ran at first a grown woman, slowly, slowly growing new once more.

I ran through mud puddles on the trail, the cold, thin brew of coffee-and-milk-colored water shocking my toes awake. I ran until I slipped the world of time and taxes, work and weariness that I had left at my desk just minutes before.

I ran until there wasn’t an inch of dryness to be found. Drenched and dripping, giving in, a smile spread across my face. I ran until I was a child.

And the others still out in the rain—the ones who hadn’t scurried back inside, who had also given in—they replied with smiles of their own. We were all children out there, running in the rain, no matter our age.

As the thunderclouds slipped down the mountainside and closed in around the trail, I turned toward home. Floating along in my child’s stride. Un-tired. Un-bound. The closest thing to child’s play.

I imagined myself an old woman, twenty years or so down the road. Still running. Lacing up my shoes and leaving worries and old bones at the door. Floating along in my child’s stride. Slower, to be sure, but still running. Growing young again each day, if only for an hour.

Every run is a work of art, a drawing on each day’s canvas. Some runs are shouts and some runs are whispers. Some runs are eulogies and others celebrations. When you’re angry, a run can be a sharp slap in the face. When happy, a run is your song. And when your running progresses enough to become the chrysalis through which life is viewed, motivation is almost beside the point. Rather, it’s running that motivates you for everything else the day holds.

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