mindfirerunner

You know how sometimes you just want to go for a run to get away from everything? Why is it that this is the time we tend to fill our minds with a thousand different thoughts, conversations we’ve had, problems we try to work through, ideas we want to explore, and a general realm of mindless things? I might be the only one on the road at 4AM in my little town, but sometimes I find there’s a whole population running through my head.

Part of me thinks I tend to do this because it’s dark and I’ve created my own coping mechanism with running alone in the dark, but most of me knows it’s because I’m a woman, and quite simply this is what we do. I find I get a lot accomplished with my thoughts during this time, but in retrospect I have lost the ability to simply get…well, lost.

I’m the worst when it comes to multi-tasking; not because I can’t, but because I’ve become so good at it that I have an extremely difficult time slowing down. There will continue to be times when my head is an overpopulated place, but I’m working on making a few runs with a population of one.