Keeping Pace

Keeping Pace

Archives for June 20, 2007

Over the hump

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It’s Wednesday night and I am getting along okay. I guess you could say that I am over the hump. I booked up my evenings this week so much that I have hardly been home at all. I am able to do a few things that I couldn’t normally do like have dinner with friends and family.

While the meet ups have kept my occupied, the distraction hasn’t worked as smoothly as I had hoped. One pitfall is that th act of booking up my free time has left me exhausted. Additionally, my painful moments have been pushed back into my morning commutes (rather than late evening). Since I hate showing up to work with red, swollen eyes, I’ve decided that I need a solution.

I’ve decided to leave tonight open for some bonding time with Lucky and the 3+ loads of clean laundry that are now badly wrinkled.

sadness happens

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You probably remember that I am not a runner who needs companionship on my outings. There are days when I would rather block out the world around me to retreat to the depths of my little head. Yesterday was one of those days.

The only problem with running solo was that I had already begun arrangements to run with Mark and Cindy. While I am sure that they would have understood, if I had sent them on without me, my mind was busied with the awareness that they had waited for me to get out of my meeting. I wouldn’t let myself abandon them after that. Besides, Cindy was rescuing me from hunger with half of her energy bar.

As Mark and I ran together to the place where we would meet Cindy, I ranted about the meeting. I expressed having let my frustration completely consume me. I described how I had used my own sadness as an example of why the specific criterion under discussion was perfect as is. And how I felt utterly out of control at the moment that I let that happen. I could have said more, but had gotten enough of it out of my system by the time we met up with Cindy.

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