Alice is a Runner!

The first run of August was good.  I am feeling like I can add more runs each week.  I am going to start adding more to my runs and not quite running three times yet, but I need to get back to three.  Take that doctor.  Just kidding.  Still no orthotics and it is buggin'! Oh well.

Good run.  Feet felt like bricks only once.  Not too bad!

Great run.  It was filled with a feeling of how wonderful home is.  My roots run deep in this area of the world and I will soon be leaving again.  Oh how I will miss Wisconsin.  The smells, the trees, the gentle breezes on a cooler summer day.  All things that I am hoping are seared into my memory to carry me forth back into my reality in Utah and can carry me until the next time I am here; home!  

I also had some great thoughts for my writing(alice is a writer as well!).  I had to get to paper and pen quickly when getting home because this run was filled with thought and joy and I didn't want to lose any of those thoughts.  

I love this kind of run.  It makes the ones where I feel like I have concrete shoes worthwhile.  

Today I was Alice the runner.  I kept chest high and legs pumping the whole time and it felt real and it felt like home.  

Wonderful! 

Dreadmill, Best Western, Rapid City, South Dakota

Traveling back to Utah from Wisconsin. Didn't sleep last night. Still wanted to get a run in, because I have been eating CRAP(not literally of course, but snack food from gas stations is not very healthy!)

Good little run on the treadmill. It is nice to have nice hotels that have nice treadmills. Keeps me on track.

I wonder how bad my first run back at altitude will be. I may be dreading it already!

It is nice to be back in Utah.  No, really, I mean it!  I really have missed the mountains.  I was very glad that I was not winded with the altitude and all.  Running seems to be a place where my creative brain comes out these days.  Alice is getting some good ideas to be the writer she has always dreamed about.  Memories flooded as I ran through this town that I have lived for the past ten years.  As much as I hate coming back after summer break, this is where I currently hang my hats and that is where home is!