One Foot in Front of the Other

Mantra:  I just gotta run.

Some runs are so much more enjoyable than other runs.  In general, I love running, pretty much always.  But some runs are just more challenging than others.  It's not always easy to find that steady pace that just carries me through the miles set for that day. 
I read this on another blog that I LOVE "There are days unfortunatley, that I do not run as far as planned, but then there are days I go further".  Running for me is such an eb and flow thing.  There have been days during this training period that I simply just ROCK at and then days where half the distance I normaly run seems so far away.  But I do it. I complete the days run, and  I go right back out the very next time.
Running is my "happy place"  I enjoy it even when it sucks or I suck, I still truly, cross my heart, enjoy it!  I have seen gorgeous sunrises and  spactacular sunsets.  I have seen foxes playing.  I saw a family of skunks scurrying off the trail, and until that moment I had never once given a skunk any thought other than P-U but baby skunks chasing their mama ....so so cute.  I was lucky enough one day to see swans just lazily going up the river...It was beautiful.  I love running near water so I always get to see ducks and geese.  In the spring when their ducklings are swimming with them,  well, I just simply love it.  It's never old to me.  So far my most favorite sighting was the day I was out running late Fall.  A snow storm was coming in that evening The sky was so dark it was a deep deep navy blue.  The sky was promising to let loose a fury of a snow storm.  I had to hurry if I wanted to get my run in for the day, so about 4 o'clock I hurried out.  I took my little running buddy, my boxer, Josie.  Running around the bend on the lake was probably 2 or 3 HUNDRED seagulls (I swear it was that many) my little boxer noticing all of those little white birds,that she so desparatley wanted a "play date" with yelped and all at once those white birds took flight.  The contrast of the dark navy blue sky and the hundreds of white birds!  Oh my!  I was in my very own snow globe!  It was so amazingly beatuiful I didnt once consider the huge possibility that at any given moment I could have been a canvas for all of their bird "droppings".  I was in AWE!  It was truly such a gorgeous sight!  And it was all around me.  Like I was an actual part of a beautiful piece of art work.  It still gets to me just thinking about it now.
How could I not love running, when this is what happens, when I simply put one foot in front of the other.