Run: 12 miles (!) in :98:17 mins. @ 7:00 a.m.

Weather Report: Cloudy, 51°F, 82% Humidity, Winds: From WSW @ 12 mph; feels like 51°F.

Pace: :08:11 per mile

"There is an itch in runners."~Arnold Hano

I woke up this morning with aspirations of knocking out a 10-mile run, my first workout of over seven miles since the Last Chance for Boston Marathon fiasco. That run terminated at the nineteenth mile, and my recovery from it has been a long road. So with visions of passing street lights dancing in my head I made some coffee, checked the weather, and began to psyche myself up, while at the same time, praying for the rain to hold...

An outstanding run! I went further and felt better than I probably had a right to...
I felt as if I was driving my body and shifting--faster, slower, easy... ea-s-y...--at just the right moments. While focusing on controlling my body and breathe my mind also worked its way through quite a few things in a free-form wave of thoughts and ideas: metaphor, growing, planting, writing...

Breathe in, breathe out... YOU AND I ARE ALIVE!