Friday, January 27th, 2012...10:19 am

It felt like flying

Jump to Comments

I’ve been wont to com­plain about how it sucks to be doing my train­ing in the gym. Ever since I tweaked my foot I’ve been feel­ing caged on the tread­mill and ellip­ti­cal machines. On the machines I can’t think about any­thing, it’s too stuffy and hot and I’m always drip­ping with sweat. I’m always star­ing at num­bers, cursed num­bers. It makes me remem­ber how I hated run­ning track in high school, and the unfor­giv­ing num­bers that come with it.

On the flip side it’s been breath­tak­ing get­ting out and real­iz­ing that I’ve been tak­ing nature for granted. It’s a gift to have your mind wan­der. It’s a gift to roam over mossy earth. I ran out over the Oak­land hills this morn­ing to see a blan­ket of clouds glow­ing through the sun­light and pour­ing out over the hills into the Bay. I both wished I had my cam­era with me and was glad I didn’t.

2 Comments

Filed under Andrew 2.0, Running

  • http://daniellui.wordpress.com/ Daniel Lui

    it’s all about the TV’s, man. I don’t have cable, so it has become my incen­tive to work out while nurs­ing some turf toe recently. :)

    but yes, cre­ation is a gift :) .

  • http://svdbygrcty.wordpress.com/ Arwen

    Look­ing at cre­ation while you’re run­ning out­side is amaz­ing, espe­cially if you’ve been in Tai­wan for a while and only have con­crete and build­ings sur­round­ing you. I sup­pose it’s kind of the same sen­sa­tion when you’re stuck in the gym.