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Run As Fast As You Can
Can I? Should I? Do I?
I heard a song recently called “You Better Run As Fast As You Can”. And it made me think:
Can I? Should I? Do I?
What would it actually take to make me run as fast as I can? And then, how long would I be able to do it? How long can I sustain that kind of pace?
What would cause me to do that? To take off at such a speed?
I don’t know. I may never know. But shouldn’t I be prepared anyhow?
Putting Feet to Pavement
And so, I did run that day. From my house to my daughter’s tennis match just 2.6 miles away. That isn’t far. It’s further than I used to run, but not as far as I have been running. And certainly not as far as I’d like to run. But I ran there while the rest of my family drove.
That doesn’t make them weak. And it doesn’t mean I’m strong. It just means I leveraged the time I had to run to a place I needed to be anyhow.
(Sidenote: I arrived just in time to see my daughter’s match. I count that a win for me. Cause if I do something that’s good for me, but it ends up impeding my relationship with my daughter or any of my other family, then I need to reassess. But that’s not what happened today.)
