Variety

Today I decided it was time to shake things up. I have a normal 6-mile route that I've traversed for several years. Yesterday I was thinking ahead to today's run and a little spark flared up, telling me I should go for a little variety. The problem with that thought is that the new path is much hillier than my regular run, as if that's possible. Even when I was out in today's gorgeous weather I thought about taking the path of least resistance, as it were. But no, I stayed on the north side of the street and veered right when I should have turned left at Albuquerque. Yes, the hills were as bad as I remembered them, but I took them slow. Even so I finished below a 9:30 pace. With a day as nice as this any bad thoughts just didn't matter. I enjoyed the change of scenery, even the amusement of a cyclist coming up the hill behind me as he talked on his cell phone. Looks like I should shoot for more variety in my runs. I was thinking my body is probably so used to the ups and downs and all the little quirks of my usual run that it needs to be shaken out of its stupor. Not that my body is stuporific, but hey, it looks like variety is a good thing.