Right now I'm just trying to keep myself going in the midst of a wasteland of depression. I keep thinking its getting better but the "better" turns out to be nebulous and transitory. I'm desperately trying to grasp onto whatever I can to keep myself going. I'm reflecting on what I should be thankful for and intentionally expressing thankfulness for those things. I'm also trying to set goals in an attempt to keep myself from sinking into "the pit" and occupy as many of my waking hours as possible.
One of the time occupying goals I've set before myself is to run every day of this month of June. I've never done an entire month of running every day so I thought it would be a nice summer goal and definitely a good way to keep me focused on something. Anything.
At the same time, I also know it's important to rest the body between runs. Because of this, some of my usual days off from running will be only short 1-2 mile easy, slow paced runs.
At the same time, I also know it's important to rest the body between runs. Because of this, some of my usual days off from running will be only short 1-2 mile easy, slow paced runs.
I'm four days in and I'm really glad that I challenged myself to do this.
Yesterday was my favorite run this month so far because I ran on the southern portion of the Line Creek Trail, a part that I haven't been on in at least a year (maybe two). It's a gorgeous trail and when I reached Riverside, I discovered that they've finally extended it further south which greatly excites me as it gives me more trail to explore. My only disappointment was that shortly after I entered Riverside, it was time to turn around and run the 4 miles back to my starting point and I didn't get a chance to explore the trails further. Next Week!
I made it to Riverside!
The wildlife I saw yesterday was fantastic. I saw a turtle, ducks, several groundhogs, a myriad of rabbits and some far too "friendly" squirrels. No snakes today (which I often see warming themselves on the concrete path) but on the return leg, I looked over into the creek and saw some gar swimming around in the clear moving water. Gar! I never realized that there were gar in that creek but I looked it up after I got home and sure enough they are there!
I look forward to discovering new features along this trail in the weeks to come.
I look forward to discovering new features along this trail in the weeks to come.
Box Turtle I saw walking next to the trail
Some of the smaller Line Creek falls
