I Run, I Run
“I always loved running… it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.”
-Jesse Owens
“My feet have several thousand meetings scheduled with the dirt on a trail not far from here. Who am I to keep them waiting? Time to run.”
-Jeb Dickerson
“There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.”
-George Sheehan
“Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.”
-Jimmy Carter
“There is an itch in runners.”
-Arnold Hano
On my day off yesterday I did what I always love to do. I ran. An awesome run over The Bridges of New York City in 22 degrees farenheit weather.
Call me crazy. But the only thing that keeps me going is taking my work-fatigued body into the bitter cold and running until every hair on my body is standing straight up and I forget everything else in the universe but the feeling of my feet hitting the ground and the air rushing in and out of my lungs. That is my inner peace.
I run. I run.
Photo: Taken on my walk to the hospital today.