I can watch this a million times and it gets me every time! I really don’t know what it is about this movie. Why I find it as facinating as I do. Why I believe in it. People who know me know my obsession with this film including my trip to NY City where I posed laying on the Ice at the famed ice rink in Central Park. Man I just watched it again and it has that ability to lift me out of any mood.

You know sometimes there are just hard days. You open your eyes and wonder how did I get here and I’m not talking about the lyrics to Once In a Lifetime either. Just some mornings you wake up alone and you wonder which path took me to this place. Things don’t seem great and you ponder choices that you can change. So for me I throw on a pair of runners and take a different path, and at the end of it I find balance, resolve, peace and often the solitude. Today was one of those days, dark when I woke with little motivation. I just went for a lunch run and did I pour everything into it. I feel amazing and might not have found peace but for todays stresses, I found acceptance which is more important. Anyhow my running stats, 6 miles in 41:50 for an average pace of 6:58 minute miles. The first mile was in 6:10 so that was just awesome, mile two wasn’t to much different. It wasn’t till the last two miles that that speedwork was taking it’s toll.

Well I just found the photos of my first marathon, I went with Sydney and Paul to this race in 2006 (January). Sydney looks so cute, it’s hard to believe it’s been that long already. Where does the time go? Life sure can be totally flipped upside down in such a short time.

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