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September 2, 2008 I've had this blog now for over three years. It's been very helpful to have a running log and it has pushed me to keep running and do more than I would have done without the blog. However, it's become a real stretch to call myself a "mother." There are three stages to a woman's life...maiden, mother, crone. I was too quick to end the first stage and became a mother for the first time at the tender age of 19. Now I have stretched the second stage of "mother" until I'm still babying my youngest who is 23. However, I have fulfilled my biological obligation and produced three beautiful, intelligent, somewhat healthy children. Of course they are a big part of my life, still, but our roles have changed. Now I'm the one they come to for advice. I'm the friend that steps in when they need a hand. It's time to embrace my cronehood. Being a crone means that I have the rest of my life to do with as I wish. My life, thus far, has been about pleasing or caring for other people. Now, it's time to please myself. I still love to run (sometimes I hate it), but I also love putting together thrifted clothes into outfits, designing quilts and other scrap fabric art, making soap and other smelly potions, herbal medicines, and caring for my four legged friends. I'd love to travel more and explore the world that is close to me. Anyway, I am starting a new blog..."See Granny Run." I'm going to continue to log my runs, but I'm also going to push myself to do more with the other areas that I love. However, I'm just having a hard time getting started at the new place. So I think I'm going to keep using this blog as a running log through the end of the month and then start fresh on October 1. As far as running.... I did four treadmill runs last week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I didn't do any evening runs. The morning runs wore my ass out. I went to the gym on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday. I didn't run this weekend because it was the weekend of the Decatur Book Festival and I spent the whole weekend experiencing the geekiness of a book festival. I was at the book festival from 10 am to 6pm on Saturday and a couple of hours on Sunday. How geeky is that. I collected some new authors and bought way too many books. Monday I ran in the US 10K classic. I'm going to please myself and NOT do a race report. It was just as torturous a race as I have always suspected. It's a quarter of a mile downhill, first, and then a quarter of a mile up hill and a quarter of a mile downhill, and continues like that for the entire race. These aren't gently rolling hills, these are at LEAST the grade of "cardiac hill" on Peachtree Street. I still had a good time. I took it really easy and ran and walked as necessary. My finish time was 1:20:36...but I don't care. Tonight I walked both George and Gracie two and a half miles. George of course was an angel, but Gracie pulled the leash the entire two mile walk. Also her tail did not stop wagging the entire time. She adores these walks. I got home and Loki was beside himself with jealousy, so I took him for a walk around the block. So, altogether I walked the dogs three miles. I'm counting it! HA! I'm really getting into this crone thing. |
