Dear James, Daniel and Emily,
Running
This morning, as I was in that twilight stage of thinking, but still sleeping, before the alarm went off, I heard the little voice in my head. You know the voice, the voice that said it was perfectly okay to skip my run today. Well when the alarm went off a very important thing happened. I got up, gathered my clothes and started getting ready for my run, almost automatically. Which tells me that my exercise habits have gone from the practice stage to habit, which is a very good thing. Because let's face it, I am a serious creature of habit, I develop habits, and then have a hard time changing those habits. So when the process of dressing for exercise becomes the habit, it's much easier to ignore the little voice (kind of like it get easy to ignore the little voice that told me that bowl of cereal was plenty for breakfast, but I still stopped at Chick Fil A anyway in the mornings out of habit, that being a bad habit I had to break).
So about a mile into my run I decided that not only was I going to ignore the little voice, I was going to curb stomp it by extending my run to 4 miles. Which it turned out wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. I probably could have run even longer, but I had to get home, and I still ended up pressing a little bit for time.
So I learned 2 important things today: my exercise practice has become such a habit that it is easy to ignore the bad inner voice that wants me to blow it off. And that I can press that run to 4 miles, and probably even longer. Which leads me to 1 more conclusion: time to start getting up earlier, so I can keep extending my runs.
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