Running

Running – I have run for years.  I am guessing I started in high school and then for another 50-ish years.   I got lucky that my body parts didn’t break down.  Running is usually painful but once in a while you get to experience a true runner’s high.  It only happened a few times over the years but I remember them.

By far the best of this was me and my older daughter going on long runs together.  We started out with short runs but they got longer over time and in the end some of our runs were over two hours long.

To avoid the boredom I started making up stories during our runs and — this is weird — when we would start running the stories would just flow out of me — almost like someone else was telling me what to say.  I hope I don’t sound too strange here, but that is what happened.

There were a whole bunch of stories, but the one that stands out by far is the story I made up that eventually became my 850 page fiction book — Faythe of North Hinkapee.  My daughter actually helped me when I got stuck on the plot.  If you go to the James T. Hogg website there is a whole Hogg-Blog about how I wrote the book.

Anyway, my running today is limited as I like my 0ther workouts better, but every year I stagger through the 5K Turkey Trot in my hometown.