David Archuleta: GLORIOUS from Meet the Mormons

So here I am, Post Ironman, and I haven't written my race report - so my thoughts are just tumbling around in my head and I can't seem to move on. . . I need to find an hour today and do that. . . I will try.  

But I really had to share this song with you today. . . . I heard this song the other day, and I just can't get enough of it!  I tear up every time it is on. . . discovering who we are . . . . it's why we are here!  I know that and I hope to be able to figure out my heart. . . . soon. . . I really do need to write that race report!

It IS glorious!

I saw this quote today - and I loved it.  It is how I feel about running and about Ironman and training for Ironman. . . 

"I think that sometimes we only talk about the good parts of running, as if there weren’t any bad parts. Running sucks. It does. It makes your legs hurt, your lungs hurt, and just about every other part of your body. Your body basically feels like a moving bucket of ouch. You can’t breathe, you sweat in your eyes, you smell gross, and you can’t hang out with your friends because you spend 99.9% of your free time running. Just running. 

Some days when you do intervals, you want to cry. You want to lay on your back in the middle of the track and scream at the sky because it’s been forever since your times improved and you literally in that moment, want nothing more than to improve. But something keeps you on your feet, and you hobble over to the water station and when your coach tells you to, you get your ass back on the line and you run your heart out.

But that is what running is. You hate it, you despise it, but it’s become a part of you. No matter how much it hurts and drives you to the ends of hell and back, you would never let it go. You need it, when you don’t run you feel lost and confused. It makes you cry it makes you angry, but it makes you, you.
Because it is who you are."

From runawaytorender.tumblr.com via Gibson's Daily Running Quotes

I think I am going off for a run right now - to figure out my heart, to think, because I am struggling with post ironman confusion - sigh.