Well, I ended up not running at all yesterday, due to an inconvenient schedule and an unhappy stomach, and didn't think I would get a chance to run today, either, but fortunately my class got out an hour and a half early, so I went running in the park by my house. I've been doing this run for years and years now, since I first started running distance, and it's one of the few runs I really don't get bored of, no matter how many circles I have to run. It's only a mile and a quarter or so around, so I have to do multiple laps, but I love it nonetheless. It's changed a bit over the years, and even since I last ran there in December, which is always interesting the first couple times around, but some things about it never change. There aren't many trees, so it's not a great run to do during the day in the summer, but mornings and evenings are amazing. My run goes by fields, courts, and facilities for an incredible number of sports - tennis and basketball courts, soccer, football and baseball fields, a swimming pool, sand for volleyball, a skate park, race tracks for people and cars and horses, plus open grass for flying kites and playing ultimate and of course the nice gravel path where I run. On a nice night like tonight, there are people everywhere doing all sorts of interesting things.
It was great that tonight was so nice because I felt a lot better physically than I did the other two times. I'm not sure if this is a better time of day for me, or if my body just needed to be shook back into form, but running is comfortable again. Definitely a good sign.
Mmm. Ending the day so happily makes me feel better about all the rest of it.
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