I hopped out of bed with the enthusiasm of a five year old at Christmas when my alarm went off at 5am this morning, hit the bathroom, drank a glass of water and was on the road. I ran swiftly through my planned route out toward the Rickenbacker Causeway along the trail underneath the metro-rail before finally turning and heading toward the Causeway itself. The incline of the bridge is steeper than anything else one could possibly run in Miami but I took to it with ease...
And if you believe that, I might just sell you that bridge.
The one thing that can be learned from hitting the road again is that quite simply I am not in shape. Not that the guy who drove by and yelled "You're already thin!!!" out his window would begin to comprehend that. I've never needed to exercise to lose wait, I've always somewhat resembled a twig, however there was one point in my life that running 3 miles was easy and walking was never an option. Today was not that day. I did make it 3 miles, but for a good portion you could hardly call what I was doing "running".
Still, it was a glorious run. If I can manage to drag myself out of bed I love being up that early. By no means was I enthusiastic, but I was up at 5am and out of the house in short order. One of the other things I had forgotten was just how hungry I get when I actually do this kind of thing, I had a pretty decent breakfast and I'm still hungry but I'm also on campus already, pretty much broke, and lacking a snack food stash. I'm going to need to work on that. The weather was kinda funky this morning, really windy, it rained on me a bit too. Plus considering how early I got up the sun was still down by the time I made it back home. At one spot on the run I stopped to stretch on the beach... yeah, I can run to the beach from my place... crazy I know. There's plenty good to be said for beautiful sunny days on the beach, but I'm weird, I really like gloomy, melancholic weather, not sure why. You could hear rumblings, and aside from the city lights the sky was completely dark and overcast. The wind was obnoxious, but it wasn't against me or at my back, it just blew me sideways for a while and seemed loud and angry. For me at least, it was a gorgeous morning.
The next step is stocking my fridge so I have a more filling breakfast, and snacks to keep me going through lunch and dinner as well.
Joy of joys, time for class, more later.
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