Out for the count.
5 days of no running and laying on the sofa.
Flu symptoms, negative COVID test
I’m never sick.
All my cold medicine expired since I haven’t been sick in years.
I have no energy; just enough to barely walk the dogs.
I read an entire book yesterday. Running Home by Katie Arnold. It was so good. She writes about her family, being a mom, an ultrarunner and writer.
One of my favorite lines from the book when she is just about to finish a race: “I was running from the inside, from the certainty that anything is possible if you just keep going.” (pg 222)
And what I remember, and what is clear from her book about running: is that you get in a flow with your running and the world falls away. That is what I want with my running but it doesn’t seem to happen.
She went on to win Leadville 100 in 2019 – the year I dropped out.
She wrote an article for the New York Times shortly after winning the race.
What I remember most about that article. Her ending line:
