7/12 Day 2

7/12
7am
3mi

Last evening my wife and I enjoyed some time with friends of ours.  I'm a huge fan of microbrews, so I filled up a growler (2L) at my local "good beer store" and we had a good time. I was still planning on running the next morning because another friend of mine was coming up from Lancaster to run with me. So my alarm goes off at 6:30am and I was not feeling 100% (by any means.) However, I was still looking forward to my run! I drank some water and headed out with my buddy.  Again, I didn't worry about my pace or killing myself to get finished with the run, I enjoyed my surroundings and noticed the things around me.  I smiled the whole time!

Today (as one of you requested) I concentrated on smells.  It was a bit difficult at first because I was a little stuffy starting my run - but still got some good stuff!

While stretching I noticed the smell of my flowers.

We ran around a dam - so I noticed the smell of the water and marsh.

The dirt we were running on.

More flowers.

Goose poop.

Grass.

We pass two people and I smelled their perfume.  Older lady perfume.

I noticed my smell (I actually wore the same shorts this morning that I wore yesterday, but only because my wife was still asleep when I woke up and didn't want to disturb her while finding another pair of shorts.) I smelled my shorts - but also my detergent.

The smell of my buddy when he was in front of me - more detergent.

Car/truck exhaust.

Cigarettes.

Cologne coming from people's cars passing us.  Some dudes wear a lot of cologne...

Sometimes I smelled a smell that reminded me of the first day of fall sports in high school.  I guess it's a mix of flowers and cut grass - it was nice to go back there for a little.

Dead animal....really dead.

Sweat.

Well that covers about all the smells.  Some of the smells were nice in that they took me back to memories - which is common for smells.  Tomorrow I'll be running again - but probably not until later in the day.  Once again - I'm open to suggestions of what to notice!

Thank you those of you reading this blog!  I hope that it changes the way you look at running (or maybe exercising in general) and you just start to enjoy moving!

Run on ya'll.