show me the bacon!

i have been hanging low this week recovering from my 50K and from a bad cold. monday and tuesday's pilates has helped me with my 50K recovery in a big way. in fact i will credit pilates with helping me up those hills, something that i have been having trouble with since early summer of last year. i am feeling great today and went out to play in the hills behind my house. i use the word "play" for a good reason. part of why i run is to feel the joy. it's a bit of childhood that i reclaim at times when i am out running with nature! this is an element that i have been lacking for some time. running use to be a best friend to me. for the past 8 months or so it has been my rival. i have put off runs or even skipped them all together for fear of failing or having yet another bad day. having had a flair up early in the spring of last year with Lyme Disease, i have really been struggling with my running and finding it to be more of an enemy to me rather then a friend. i feel as if i am on the up swing now and making my way back. i have some wonderful friends who believe in me and a great husband who supports me in ways that you can't believe. it takes a special person to be married to a distance runner. our partners need to have a lot of patience with us because chances are, they do not understand our need to run and succeed.

back to my run...

after an hour behind my house i ran for another 30 minutes on trails and up past the middle school and high school where both my boys are attending and around the corner to starbucks for my treat/reward! and then the final leg back home. 1 hour 45 minutes of total joy and fun! at the corner turning in to my track came my sassy friend Shari with a big enthusiastic wave. i blew her a kiss and ended my run!!! what a fun day, bright and sunny and warm.

i have a little thing that i like to do. that is to read the back of starbucks cups. there is some great wisdom on the back of those cups. a while ago i received an email from my friend jeff in regards to one of those quotes on the back of a starbucks cup. last week i just so happened to get the very same cup that we had had a discussion about. it is quote #200 by Art Turock and it goes like this...

"There's a difference between interest and commitment. when you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit. when you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, just results."

i find myself asking on many occasion if i am the bacon or the egg.... the egg is only interested while the bacon is totally committed. i want to be totally committed!