Why I run (cartoon style)
| July 25, 2015 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
Ironically as I was working on my last post, this cartoon had been in the works for a while – weeks actually. I run because it makes me happy is still the simple base truth, however last month as the one year anniversary of my sister’s unexpected death passed (and her birthday), and I was able to look back on a year that was mostly characterized by lots and lots of bad horrible things happening, with a few incredibly good things and….lots and lots and LOTS of running – I had this revelation.
I do not run in order to run away from my demons.
(It’s hard to capture the beauty of dry California foothills in cartoon form, but I tried. Golden grass with incredible oak trees. )
I run because it makes them behave the rest of the time.
…much like my dog apparently.
This totally makes sense to me.
Definitely agree. The “what are you running from” question drives me mad.
Had the first “bad” PT this week that I have ever had and her first question (statement?) when she walked in the door without even asking me a single thing was “I don’t understand why people like you feel the need to continue to run while they are pregnant”. Really??? The visit went downhill from there. Saw in the handouts they gave me afterwards that she was a stroke and balance coordinator instead of the sports medicine focused person, which I’m still not sure why I was scheduled with her specifically considering I was there for running related questions etc. but the visit went downhill from there. As you can imagine. pretty sure she would be a person who would ask what I’m running “from”.
Btw if you want a reminder of what kind of landscape I mean by ca foothill, take look at the last picture in the previous post on pregnant running, or the cache creek trail conditioning ride I did with Funder earlier in the year 🙂
=) Never thought about it this way before!
Yay! That makes me happy :). I feel like I’ve managed to share something meaningful then.