I haven’t written in my blog for a couple years but have been feeling more creative lately: working more seriously on my newest novel, despite my career being super busy, finding new interests, etc. For the last couple years, I’ve also been “blogging” about life as well as ecofiction in a newsletter. Subscribe here.
One thing that I keep going back to is running. This blog sorta started with my urge to run after an ablation several years ago that cured supraventricular tachycardia, which I had suffered with all my life. I’ve returned to running in Nova Scotia, though I never really quit; I’ve just tried to adjust to more extreme weather. Running is my go-to when I feel like I need to get moving. I’m not a fast or long-distance runner, and I’m getting older, but I love the movement, the distance, the motion of it. I started retraining the 10K last week and just finished the first week today, which is basically running I think like half an hour for now, and that works up to an hour eventually on the Active app.
I run inside for now! Not on a treadmill but through a track in the house. Today I ran barefoot, and I’m still surprised that starting this exercise again after not having run regularly since like July hasn’t been hard. Kids, do your stretches and squats first!
I don’t know if it was all the summer work in the meadow—building 3-foot-high garden beds, planting, weeding, picking apples, being the sole mower on our property (the zero-turn mower is such a blast), the constant stacking of wood to heat our house this winter, or what. I know that I can stack more wood at a time than I used to be able to do. I’m just surprised that this running hasn’t kickstarted IT injuries or ankle injuries.
I’m training a new woman at work, and we both just joined the free gym membership we’re offered through our workplace. Though we’re absolutely covered in snow here, with another storm coming on Monday, I am already sensing spring. The last couple days have been full of sunshine, though cold. Glass half full. Or, rather, completely full.
*Feature image is what the top of our shed looks like now with the probably like two feet of snow from recent storms.
