We had a blissfully cool night last night as world record amounts of rain fell yesterday afternoon, so I slept upstairs, where I tend to be woken up earlier, and thus am able to run before it gets too hot. Plan: Failed. I rolled out of bed later than ever, headache already achieved. I stepped outside to blistering temperatures, and confirmed on the net that it feels like 87 out there. I have made it a recent personal rule to not run if it feels higher than 85. I am hoping to be able to get my run in tonight - I haven't done that in awhile, but it used to be my favorite, so we'll see if the weather and my headache cooperates.
In the meantime, I have become addicted to The Kathleen Show, an internet talk show, which I mentioned last month when she interviewed the ultramarathoner Scott Jurek. Today I saw she has posted a short interview with a guy who lost 150 pounds after becoming a runner. And his first run? Well, it's way funnier to hear him tell it.
At the end of the interview, he provides a quote from Runner's World - he said it was from 2 years ago, but I found it in a Feb 2010 Runner's World online...so...not sure it's origins but the article I found was written by Marc Parent, so I'll give him unofficial credit for it. I'm not sure that this is helpful to those of us who are already superconscious when they run, but I liked it anyway:
No one is an island. No one runs in a vacuum. There's always someone watching you leave the house, dig it out, come back, and do it all over again. You're being watched by a roommate, a brother, a spouse, the driver of every passing car. You're being watched by future generations. "My grandmother ran in college," someone might say of you one day. "My great uncle took it up in his 30s and ran marathons in his 60s." We are all inexorably entwined within each other's influence. You may run by yourself but no matter how early you start, no matter how remote your location, you never run alone.
Damn that makes me want to go out in 90 degree heat with a headache and go for 20 minutes.
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