Running Weary
1:32:30 – 8.5 miles
Weird weird weird. That’s all I can say about the run. Struggled around mile 3 and tried to distract myself as long as I could. It’s amazing how negative thoughts can creep into your mind and start pulling you down. Not just with running, but with life in general.
Everyone has good days and bad days. It’s how we react and deal with them that shapes a big part of us. I’ve found ways to change my mood through food and sun, but then there are the days when nothing will work. I don’t have the luxury of just calling it a day and starting over tomorrow. There are way too many responsibilities on my plate to allow for that. To me that sounds like an excuse and the “problem solving” in my head begins.
Sometimes eating fruit helps, coffee works for 15 minutes, and venting makes me feel worse. It’s a strange built up tension as I want to solve this problem. How to get out of a funk. That would be a good book title!
Recently, watching the news makes me feel better about my life. To see people getting angry about Facebook changing their interface and bombs being dropped on other countries, helps me put things into perspective. Of course, watch the news for too long, and you can become depressed. Problem solver part of the brain wants to fix the world. I’m going to need a few more people on that one.
