I prefer going 45 minutes or so instead of 30. My mind seems to open up more with the longer runs. When I stop at 30 minutes I feel like I am missing something. So I usually do 45 minutes or an hour, two or three times a week. A friend of mine (a walker) once told me of similar feelings. “The first 30 minutes is for my body,” she said. “The second 30 minutes is for my soul.”
– Dr. George Sheehan
Today I’m starting a “new” theme here on an unfinished person called Motivation Monday (I say “new” because I had started this theme previously and then abandoned it, because I guess a lack of motivation). Each Monday, I will write a post hopefully to help motivate myself and you as we start our weeks. I will begin each post with a quote from Dr. George Sheehan, as seen above, especially from the book titled “Dr. George Sheehan on Getting Fit & Feeling Great,” which includes three other books in one by the late runner-philosopher. Those three books are How To Feel Great 24 Hours A Day, Running and Being and This Running Life. I might also include quotes from other running gurus such as Jeff Galloway and John “The Penguin” Bingham, from time to time.
So considering today’s quote and post from Chapter 1 of the first book, “On Learning,” I am going out this afternoon for about an hour and will aim to do the same on Wednesday during the day and Friday morning this week. The first 30 minutes will for my body to acclimate to something it hasn’t done in a quite a while: move for the sake of moving, in other words, not just to get to the library or to walk downtown for lunch, but to move to focus on exercise. The second 30 minutes will be for my mind and my soul: for my mind to unwind and my soul to breathe.
