Lead legs

Well, we finished our 3 mile Thursday run. That's the good news.

It hurt. This is the third run in a row this week and my legs were tired. In between songs on my iPod, there was a bit of silence, and I could hear my feet plodding on the ground. I need to focus on using my feet to help me run instead of just landing on them like bricks at the end of my legs.

After the first mile I started trying to think of ways to make myself feel lighter. I repeated "light as a feather, stiff as a board" a few times and then I started thinking about my days in junior high :) Then I started thinking about the balloons in Up! which we just saw last weekend - "Pretend the balloons are attached to your back lifting you out of your shoes". And then I pictured the old man and the little boy holding the house down by the hose and the rope. That's when my legs became the hose and the rope. The old man and the boy were the bricks at the end of my legs.

But we made it. Friday is going to be a glorious day of rest for my poor legs. Saturday we get to do a new, fun, and exciting thing - run with a group of runners in downtown Portland!