It's a Beautiful Day

It's been my pre-race song since I ran the Grandma's race that got me to Boston.  I've listened to the song over and over and over - on long runs and of course, pre-race.  But it wasn't until I was listening today in the car - that's the best place to really hear the lyrics to a song - that I actually heard "what you don't have you, you don't need it now....it was a beautiful day..."

I'm on a new path right now.  I've got time, more time than I've had in a long time.  That's because I'm giving my body a break from the constant training and therefore I have time. Which has felt like emptiness.   But I got new perspective today.  The Chinese call it yin - it's the void - a place that seems scary to most of us.  But instead of being scary why not go into it & look at it as a place of possibility? 

Think of all the ways I can spend my new found time.  It's time to step outside my box and rediscover some of the other things I love to do and possibly, find new ways to spend my time. It's also time to be grateful for the fact that I'm smart enough to take a break, rather than being forced to take a break because of injury.  And I can look forward to what it will feel like when I do pick the next goal and I start training again - there will be new and refreshed energy and excitement and even more possibility...

And then I played my song in the car.  

So what does U2 have to do with all this, it's part of seeing that void as a place of possibility and recognizing that if today is a beautiful day then everything is as it should be.  Regardless of what I think I want in my life or what I should have or what I should be doing or what I have done.