I wish I knew the actual number of blogs I have begun over the years. If you added those to the Moleskin journals I have also begun writing in, I am sure I am up to a couple dozen or so. In fact, at some point I started also making it a tradition to start this kind of thing with a preamble like this. So consider that done, I suppose.<\/p>\n
I started running a little more seriously a few months ago. I have never really stopped, but this was the first time in years that I followed a running plan. The goal was to get in shape for the 50k I ran this past weekend. The title of this blog is a (bad) joke made via the title of a Haruki Murakami book about running \u2014 he\u2019s a marathoner and one of my favorite authors. In What I talk about when I talk about running <\/i>he relates that he really doesn\u2019t think about anything while running. I\u2019ve always found this amazing. I think about everything when running, from what I am going to make that evening for dinner to what the characters my book need to do next. I think of running time being similar to how people describe lucid dreaming: my body is occupied and my mind is free to wander around solving problems or mulling ideas or thoughts over. I can kill a ten mile run thinking of nothing but various strategies for packing gear in the van. No joke.<\/p>\n
So anyway, sometimes I think things while running that don\u2019t fit into other writing projects, so that\u2019s what this place will be for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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