Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Walking

A friend of mine posted a challenge this morning - walk, swim, bike, or do some other slow exercise each day for an hour for an entire week.  It was from this blog and it made some good points.  Because I agreed with it, I got up off my duff immediately and headed out for a half hour walk, figuring I would do the remainder this evening.

Nope.  Not gonna happen.  I've decided walking gives me too much time to think.  Maybe this wasn't a good day to try it, after an emotional and stressful night with my family last night.  Or maybe I shouldn't have chosen a route that took me by the spot where I found my crippled, blind, senile old dog about this time last year.  I have no idea what took me that direction.  I hadn't been there in a year.  And I didn't set out with any destination in mind.  But as soon as I started rounding that pond, I remembered finding Annie there last year (after she had been missing for days), struggling but failing to get up at the sound of my voice.  And I burst into tears which kept flowing for the next mile and a half.

Back to running for me.