Left Behind

Today the team was off to Stevens Point to run at a track meet there. While I must say that I don't envy the fact that they had to get up early to leave at 6 am, I did feel a certain emptiness not going with them. Things were pretty quiet around the school. I spent a large portion of my day playing the organ and doing homework. The other half of my day I just played computer games. The only human contact I had all day was when I bumped into Rachel S. in the hallway for about 2 minutes. Needless to say, I was happy to see Dave and Andy get back.
I put aside a portion of the afternoon to do some running myself. I went up to the fitness center and started up the good old human hamster wheel. It was far to windy outside to get in a decent mile time. I still could have done it outside, but once again laziness took hold of me. I came away with the decent time of 5:09. I figured that even if I didn't have anyone to push me along, I could still crank up the treadmill to a 5:10 pace and just leave it there to force my body to run that pace.

Today was just a weird day. I have had a lot on my mind recently and it all came to fruition today. Running really helped me work out some stress. The organ following that helped a little as well. Running is one of those ultimate cures to stress. I always find that if I am feeling cruddy, I can lace up the shoes and head out for a run and come away feeling at least a little better. My mind is so much clearer while I am grinding out the miles. Thank God for the gift of running!

Well, I must be getting up in a few hours to welcome the new day, so that does it for this log.

Live long and prosper.