Weary Feet

Hello again, it's me. I haven't posted here in a while so I thought I'd squeeze in a few words before 2:10 class.



Things have been rough lately. I'm running about 4 miles a day and substituting large amounts of cross training (elliptical mostly) for the lack of high mileage. The results? I managed another PR in the 5000 this past weekend at "Iowa State" (otherwise known as UW River Falls). We were supposed to go to Iowa for a two-day meet but found out at the last minute that we weren't accepted there, so the coaches scrambled to get us into another meet. It turned out ok with a number of good performances, although not everyone was happy with their marks. I'm exhausted right now, however, due to lack of sleep and working too hard on school. A lot of things have been weighing down recently and I know my body is taking a beating from all the stress. Yet the only thing I can do is keep on truckin. No matter what happens in life (short of a crippling lower body injury, that is) there's always another run waiting at some point in the day, always another chance to put aside the world's problems for an hour. You can run through your issues, and running can make you live. At least that's how it works for me.


Sometimes you just need to survive. Not for yourself, but for the others who are watching you, knowing that if you can do it...maybe they can too.