Monday, August 24, 2009

Morning Inspiration

This morning I embarked on another 5K run with my running partners Eunice and Gasper. Naomi, one of our neighbors, did not join us so I had no excuse to stop and walk for a little while. Once we got to the half way point though, I did walk, for just a minute. It really was only a minute, Eunice can vouch for me. This morning I noticed I had a lot of inspiration along the way that helped to keep me going. In addition to Eunice and Gasper's encouragement, I received a smile here and there from people that were walking to work or going to where ever they were going early in the morning. We passed by a group of guys on bicycles and they rang their bells and told me to keep going. Towards the end of our run, a young man joined us and as I was lagging a little behind, he said "twende" (Let's go!). Then I was joined by a little girl on her way to school named Laura. Laura provided the additional motivation I needed to make it to the end. She started running with me and when I told her I was tired, she replied, "pole" meaning, I'm sorry but basically I could see that she meant "too bad your tired, keep going anyway". I couldn't let a little kid out do me so I kept running and eventually made it back home. I was hoping that we would get a tide from Naomi to work this morning but we did not see her when we were leaving so after running 5K, we walked another mile or so to work. Now I'm really tired but I am hoping I will get a spurt of energy to make it through the day. Hopefully some more inspirations will be sent my way :)

1 comment:

  1. your stories about running almost make me want to go. key word almost. :0) but I am very proud of you!

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