The weirdest thing happened when I went out to do my mile repeats tonight (and yes, this is another boring running story so if you're looking for more excitement you're not going to find it here).Okay, so my race pace is around 8:25 minutes per mile and, theoretically, that's the pace we're supposed to run while doing these mile repeats. No one ever does that: everyone goes faster. At any rate, I thought I would do the first mile and not really watch my time and just run at a comfortable pace. I finish the mile and look at my watch: 7:36. I thought wow, that's a pretty good clip and I didn't feel I was pushing it too hard.
I do my second mile and look at my watch. 7:36 again. I thought, hey, what are the odds?
Mile number three? 7:36. At this point I was actually starting to weird myself out. How was I running mile repeats to the exact second?
And my last mile? Come on! Guess! 7:36. What the hell does that mean? I ran four miles in exactly the same time to the second. There were variables: traffic; walkers; rain.
Then when I came home the elevator doors opened up as I was pulling open the lobby door and the elevator was empty.
I choose to believe that this is some kind of karmic sign that I am on the path of heady goodness.
3 comments:
You say heady goodness, I say check your battery in your watch.... my luck would be the battery.
Seriously... if I were a runner I would hope I could just be in some kind of zone where my body just moved in a fluid motion without thinking. We had a girl that lived here in our town that would run like that for hours. She would pass me dozens of times when I'd walk my 4 miles on the high school track. She was on the high school track team and all the surrounding school districts would come to try to beat her, the never did. My cousin was a Track Coach in Oklahoma and his girls wanted to come down and race against her, just to say they had. She had this little bobble head thing she did as she ran, you could tell she was so relaxed, it was so natural for her to move like that.
You say heady goodness, I say Twilight Zone.
You say heady goodness, I say the men in white coats are coming to get you! Run as fast as you can and hide! Don't look behind you!
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