Rosy red cheeks, heavy legs, report cards and, "What's for dinner?"

One of the things I love about winter running is coming home with rosy red cheeks.  It makes me feel healthy and alive!  It also reminds me of playing outside as a little kid and running is like my play!  If you look up the benefits of play for children you will find lots of research on the subject.  Let me list some of the benefits:

• enjoyment, fun, love of life
• relaxation, release of energy, tension reduction
• self-confidence
• self-esteem
• anxiety reduction
• attention regulation
• concentration 
• persistence

Running provides all these benefits to me, not to mention the physical benefits.  "Play teaches kids to, well, play nice."  Running may not teach me to play nice, but it sure helps me to play nice.  I'm so much more tolerant of, well, life's annoyances when I'm running regularly.  

So what's with my title of this post?  Well, those were the four things that went through my mind over and over again during my 2.75 miles tonight as I was thinking about what I would write about.  

My legs were heavy from double sessions of running and kettlebell, report cards are weighing heavy on my brain and the question, "What's for dinner?"  makes me slightly crazed every night.  

I kept thinking of these four things the entire time, but as I passed the first mile, my legs felt lighter and when I hit mile 2.5 I felt like I could keep running for a long time, but then BAM, report cards and "What's for dinner?"  kept consuming my mind.  Thankfully, I finished with rosy red cheeks and a sense of accomplishment.  

Dinner happened.  Report cards?  Wellllllllll, is there a 30 day, 1 report card per day challenge out there?  If so, I need it!

Day 3 is done.