Today = good day!

Yesterday I wrote ... tomorrow will be better than today - right?? I didn't have a crisis yesterday or have anything major go wrong. It was just a combination of waking up in a funk, a house that needed organizing, being in pain, too many scattered tasks that needed completing, annoyed at life, blah, blah ...

Thankfully today was better!!

It wasn't anything super fantastic, but it sure beat yesterday. I still woke up in somewhat of a funk, but after spending the morning looking back over the past 5 years, I had an attitude adjustment. Miracles happened and I've come a long way! I was fine-tuning what I will be saying at Lancaster Christian Writers (LCW) tomorrow morning. I've attend LCW monthly for the past year or two and have learned a lot about writing from the workshops and the critique groups. They were looking for people do workshops and I offered to share some hightlights from what I learned at STORY in Chicago in late October. Jeanette Windle, the founder and director of LCW, asked me to also share some of my story with the group.

Then this afternoon, I went on a bike ride with two friends ... it was a sunny, cool fall day. I loved being outdoors - and felt good after conquering the hills we rode on (well, almost conquering - I walked up the last half of the steepest one)

Tonight its dinner out to celebrate my sister's birthday!

So all in all, a good day!

PS: Decided to wear this dress to the wedding next weekend, so I don't even have to go shopping :)

Running versus Biking

In January, I started to run and I've been running 2 to 3 miles a few times a week since then. It's been nice to feel my body get stronger slowly, but surely. I have to balance my runs and the rest of life carefully - if I'm on my feet a few hours for something else, then I might have to push my run off a day and/or my run has to be shorter.

Earlier this summer, I rode Jerry's sister's comfort bike and was surprised how great it felt to bike - it didn't stress my legs out as much as running does. I promptly began researching bikes and found one that I liked. I've been happily biking a few times a week (from 4 to 10 miles) the past month. I even did a 19-mile ride on a nice gravel trail with some friends. So I began a routine of running one day, biking the next, then taking a day off. It's good balance for my body. I still want to run - I've been a runner since 1994. After the accident I didn't know if I would ever run again, so I'm thrilled to do it again, but I'm finding that I like biking better and most days I would rather bike, than run.

Plus this summer our "Running ... because I can Club" switched from meeting Monday nights to Tuesday nights. And for some reason, messing with the schedule has messed with my drive/desire to run (so nice I have something to blame it on!) We are now meeting at my friend Patsy's house. Patsy has a pool and a hot tub, so I should have motivation to run, so I can come back to jump into them. Running 2 miles at club tonight was torture - everything hurt and I had no energy. I kept telling myself about the joy of finishing and the cool pool and hot hottub that would be waiting for me - didn't work well, I hated every minute of it.

Tomorrow I have another bike ride scheduled with friends - we are doing 20 some miles on the Perkiomen Valley Trail. I am excited and ready to go and already thinking about where/when the next bike ride could be. Just don't ask me to run right now.