Patience

16 + miles in 2 something hours, had another device error, hence the approximations. Now I'm not sure if its me or the machine. Was keeping a pace between 7:13 and 7:24 per mile. Slower at the end, but still felt good. Was able to recover, pretty quickly, and am realizing that I'm not really sticking to my training plan. I am enjoying myself though, which just might be more important.

Today was wrapped in thoughts about patience, persistance and pacing. Though running was not the focus of those topics at all points through the run. As an analogy though, running is a nice contained example where these things are easy to measure and maintain. When I go out on a run, there is start and stop point. If I spend the first half focusing on relaxing and taking it easy, I can go fairly fast, while leaving enough energy to focus on form in the later half of the run. Life is not so easy, because with many things the measuring posts do not exist to easily gauge how fast one should go, or what one should be focusing on at the time. Admittedly though, some of my best runs are the ones with little initial plan in which I go by feel. I do maintain some sense of how far I've gone, and how long I've been running though, so it is not as though I've thrown out every sense of reflection out. And maybe that's how life should be lived.