Last Monday I took up running. That's right - running. As in "Choochoo goes huff and puff up and down the hills".
I wasn't planning to run, I really wasn't. Just like every other night, I put on a top and a pair of jeans and took the pooch for a walk. The dog and I both suffer from the same condition: we have a bunch of energy that we just don't know what to do with. The dog is taken for a couple of walks, and she seems happy. As for myself... Well... I pace back and forth a lot.
So there we were, walking down the street towards the woods, and I just couldn't seem to get rid of that over-energetic feeling that I get. So I walked a bit faster. It didn't help. And that's when it happened. All of a sudden, my legs were running. Both of'em. I don't mind telling you, that I was a bit surprised. They just kept right on running for an hour or so. If I'd known they were going to do that, I wouldn't have worn jeans.
I always thought that this form of exercise looked absolutely horrible. Everytime I see someone running, they usually sound as if they have some sort of painful lungdisease, eating them up from within, and they're quite often a bit purple-looking. Surprisingly, it wasn't that horrible. No terrible diseases grabbed a hold of my respirational system, and even if I had turned purple, nobody would have seen it because
a) it was dark out, and
b) I'm the only person in Hellhole, it would seem, nuts enough to go running in the woods after dark.
(Picture "Moon over rust farm" by Ctd 2005 for www.Flickr.com)
6 comments:
Good for you, but be careful out there at night.
yay, sounds like you had fun!
Running. At night. In the cold...
Interesting concept.
Phil - the only risk I'm taking (I think) is tripping over a root and breaking my neck or running into an angry moose (hey - maybe that's what my dream ment!). I think I know where all the roots are, and moose (or it it mooses?) sleep at night, right? What happens if you run into a sleeping moose, I wonder...?
Jazz - it -is- and interesting concept, isn't it? I feel terribly original.
Toasty - It was... well... I don't know if I want to call it fun, although it wasn't exactly un-fun. I'll have to think about it.
some people run to get rid of extra energy.... i prefer to eat cookies.
derrick - you're brilliant. Completely and totaly brilliant. Teach me!
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