A while back, Coach Jeff used seasons in reference to running – and NOT running. We were chatting about the lack of success in my continued efforts to return to running. He said that like the seasons changing, my body needed an occasional change in sports. “This is just not your season to run,” he advised, hoping I’d let go of the disappointment and embrace my newfound ability for cycling.
Well, I have truly been embracing my cycling (for the most part anyway). My time on the yoga mat as well. But recently I’ve felt the need to lace up my shoes — or secure the Velcro on my VFFS tugging on me once again. Believe it or not, I actually have a half marathon on the books 8 weeks from now. *gasp* I KNOW.
More important than a race would be my need to fill my sunbathing time. I kidding about the sunbathing. However the sun, or lack of it in the coming season, does play a significant role in my overall wellbeing. I joke about being a flower that needs sunshine but my moods are truly affected by lack of sunshine. In addition to my sunshine quota, the coming months promise to be quite stressful. Work is ramping up and people at work continue to drop like flies. And they are not being replaced. If that weren’t enough, the news I’d been hoping to never receive, but somehow knew that one day would arrive, has come. Sorry, I am being intentionally vague here. I must. Put differently, BoBo is going on a “business trip,” to an undisclosed location, sometime in the not-distant-enough future. For all of these reasons, I am looking forward to a little release.
And I hope this next attempt to come back is a success. For when the skies are grey, the ground is wet, and my stressors are collecting up like dust on a TV, I’m going to need running – more than ever.
Can’t imagine what the pending “business trip” must feel like. More than I could handle, I’m sure.