At 09:36, I start a run of 14.24 miles that lasted 1:51:40 (hour:min:sec), for an average pace of 7:51 and a caloric burn of 1,613. When I saw how much I burned, I wondered how I was going to eat enough food in the day to make up for it.
I would much prefer to start my runs earlier in the day. I'm thinking 06:00 start times rather than 0:90 start times. Getting to sleep earlier would help with getting up earlier. I didn't plan for today to be such a long run. When I started out, I thought it would be an easy five or six miles. The six miles did happen, at that point though, I was six miles straight out from home, not six miles in a loop.
I realized that a lot of my thoughts while I run are small random, fleeting dances of what is going on in my life. The provides a nice backdrop to think about them in a separate context, and then, most of the time, forget about them. Today I passed by a group of fire men lined up outside of their station, facing the flag pole, and I was reminded that it was September Eleventh. I jay-walked(ran) across the street towards a cemetery and thought that if I had mis-judged how far cars were away from the point I was crossing, I might be getting there sooner than desired. I passed by a number of small shops, and a classic American style dinner that might be worth visiting again. At the around the midpoint of the run, when I started to think about turning around, I thought about the scene in Forest Gump, when he says "I just felt like running."
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