I am a morning runner but this morning when I woke up at 5:15 I had a stuffy nose. Maybe it was because I didn't sleep early enough last night. It was possible that had I went ahead with the regular morning run, the stuffy nose would get worse and I would be sniffing the rest of the day and be miserable. So I went back to sleep until 8:30ish. No more stuffy nose, the whole day.
In the afternoon I had some "me" time for a run. A longish run, somewhere far away from my immediate neighborhood. But I also wanted to "draw" something for the Runner's World Holiday Streak. It's been a while since I did any gwriting and the recent news articles about Simon Beck and his snow art got me itchy. What better phrase to write around this time of the year than "Happy New Year"?
It turned out I could only write "Happy New". The first possible hurdle was that my Garmin was low on battery. When I was done with "Happy" there was two bars of power left. I pressed on anyway and when "New" was done there was another bar left. Still, I started the run when the sun was out, when "w" was done it was dark and colder. That's the thing with running pre-dawn. As the run spans into hours, the sun comes up, it's warmer, you feel energized by the new day. Not so with afternoon or evening run. It gets dark and depressing just when you start to get tired. Still, I could have pressed on and write "Year" but then I have a scheduled run with a friend tomorrow, some 15 miles covering part of Brooklyn and Queens. Fuhgeddaboutit! Even though I could finish "Happy New Year" today, I will be too exhausted Sunday morning for the 15-mile run. Most likely I won't have a job in 2014, I'll spell the whole three-word phrase some time early in the year then.
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Happy New Year Qap - Here is to a healthy, peaceful and employment opportunity in 2014.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you, too, TOTA! May your sports team win the year's ultimate prize!
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