Thursday, February 25, 2010
Mind Clearing
I have had some times in school where I thought what am I going to do? I have felt completely lost too many things on my plate. Work, school, personal issues just a major over abundance. There was a time where I just felt I had to focus on school and everything else and forget about running for awhile. That turned out to be a wrong choice. I actually gave up my true love for about three weeks a couple of terms a go and this was a decision to focus more on school. It came to me one day via a former professor of mine that I actually needed running to be more focused and this was a wrong decision. I had known that before but I ignored it and just thought I needed more time to focus solely on studies. How ever during those three weeks of not running my studies were no better if I had been running actually they were a little worse. I stopped and thought about this one day after receiving the email from my former professor. The next day I went out for a 5 mile run and everything came to me. During the run my thinking became very clear I was able to figure out many school problems and also figure out many of my personal issues. I am quite serious about this I had already known about how running clears the mind but I felt I still just needed to focus more on my studies. This five mile run was an enlightening expierence for me. All of my thinking became clear and as soon as I got back behind my computer I finished up a couple of projects and cleaned up a few other things also. I know now I will never JUST study and not run. In conclusion if you can run, walk or something physical while studying I highly recommend it I think you will find it to be an incredible studying tool.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Why?
I have wondered why I like running so much. Also why running is like my life. Basically running has run my life for many years. I have purposely chose places to live because the running is good in the area. Serious one apartment maybe better than the other but there is absolutely no running out the front door. To me that is a NO GO!! Running has been with me my whole life in many different ways. When I was younger I used running to have bullies stop picking on me because I was skinny. I would race them and beat them IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY!!! and that was the end of the story. That was pretty fun stuff. Sometimes I would even be brash as to give them a head start and still win. So running has even protected me in my life INTERESTING. Running has never really let me down in any way in my life. Like so many things in life that can let you down. Your job can let you down, relationship can let you down and so on. My running ramblings actually lead me to my current marriage. I met my wife because of running WHOA! this is getting out of hand. This is true though I met her at Kona Marathon 2004. We met at prerace party and she is Japanese and does not speak very good English but we still understood each other and really hit it off. After me going to Japan a few times we eventually got married a year later. So it is very interesting how running is so part of my life in many ways. At least to myself it is interesting.
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