Back from hiatus...

5.8 mi.

8:30pm
45 min., low 70s

So I took a couple days off, whaduvit?

After my last big run a few weeks ago, I was finally finished with school for the summer. I was tired and didn't want to push it after having emphatically crossed the halfway mark in my distances. So I said to myself a few days after that I'd give it another day's rest before running again. Then I registered for school and started a week's worth of blowing cash on Truman College and their cronies. That made me feel mostly like throwing up and punching things, not running. Then I finished up an 8 day work week and crashed for the weekend, after which school started. This brings us up to today's run. I just finished up my first few days of classes and now that my schedule is tight again, I feel I'm able to cram in some running.

I've always been more or less useless when not busy. Whether its the product of TV, the government, terrorists, an overactive lazy gland, or just a true appreciation of pondering and experiencing nothing whatsoever, I do not know. But the more open my schedule gets, the less I am capable of. This helps to explain the deficits in my early college career (i.e. coming off a lifelong daily soccer routine, activities-ensconsed high school, and summer jobs to an environment with no work and just a few classes periodically througout the week with teachers who barely care if you're there or not--but I digress).

But the opposite seems to also be true: the busier I become, often, the more efficient I become, provided I have the appropriate support tactics from Nicki, which include a lot of understanding, love, and--crucially--making sure I eat more that just Cheetos and Redbull.

So I've started school again and made a copious schedule of events in my life, which includes running. It's on the schedule, so I'll feel obligated to do it. Plus, the more hectic things get, the better it feels to zone out and take a long walk. The only difference is that the walk is really long, and you're not walking, and you sweat a lot. I'm actually looking forward to these big distances coming up.

So I took the run that was in my schedule that I had made a few days before. "8:30p9:30p 6 miles," I wrote. And so it was. All hail the mighty schedule!


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