I know, I know. There’s no such thing as a bad run. There’s a tough run, but there are no bad runs. Because I’m always glad to HAVE run, even if I’m not happy WHILST running.<\/p>\n
But today was a bad run. I was super slow, even with some green lights in my favor. Lumbering, cramping, I struggled to put together even a few steps of running between long walking breaks. It was a struggle and a half just to be out and moving forward.<\/p>\n
My ankle has once again been playing up — it’s not 100% debilitating but it is… tweaking? Grumbling? It’s at least two of the seven dwarfs — grumpy and sleepy — and maybe more.<\/p>\n
A tortoise would certainly have passed me today and not even in the Bugs Bunny competition scenario whereby the tortoise is smarter than the above average hare. I just was… incompetently running, like I’d never put on running shoes before, like I’d never been on a road before, like I had never walked, let alone run before.<\/p>\n
I was as a newborn colt trying to walk for the first time. Graceless and funny to others, frustrated and annoyed with myself.<\/p>\n
But if failures and setbacks are the building blocks for future success, I’d like to think today was a keystone; it certainly FELT like a failure and setback day.<\/p>\n
May tomorrow be better. May all our tomorrows ever be better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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