Run, Run, Runaway …

This is in one way a personal posting as well as a fitness related posting. I have been trying to lose weight and to live healthier overall. I am doing regular workouts 5-6 times a week and I am eating at least half-way healthy. Meaning, I do not necessarily lookout of what I am eating, but I manage to stay away from all Fast Food, candy, and most other really unhealthy things.

I have been working out and the majority of what I was doing was running. I just love to run. I turn on my iPod Shuffle and run for somewhere between 5 and 7 Miles at a time. Running helps me to completely turn out my surroundings and to get away from the stress of it all. Have you seen that baseball movie “For the Love of the Game” with Kevin Costner? He is a great pitcher and is able to blur our the busy stadium and the yelling of the fans and fully concentrate on throwing that ball. Running for me has a similar effect. When I start a run I still think about work and business and life and as I run along it all slowly fades away. Even the music fades away to a certain degree, but is still there.

So, I run along and it is just an awesome process. When I reach my goal on the treadmill or slowly get back closer to my house I “return” from being mentally absent. My mind is clear and fresh and I am full of energy. Running is the only exercise where I experience this and so it has become an addiction to run. I feel down when I cannot run for more than one day in a row.