Dear Mom where is my runners high?

Dear Mom where is my runners high?

I have been running pretty faithfully now for most of a year. I have had some times when I felt under the weather that slowed me down but for the most part I get my three miles in three times a week with little or no pain. Yet, I keep waiting for that moment when I finish and feel like doing something besides cooling off drinking lots of water and sitting on my butt in front of the computer. I know it is good for me, I actually feel better overall, but I don’t get any “runners high” from running.

I have considered running longer and there are days when I actually feel like running farther but I seriously don’t want to put that kind of time commitment into sweating in public. Plus when I number crunch it I cannot find a study that says exercising more than an hour a day had any different end result that exercising just an hour a day.

I remember you once explaining to me why I had to do my homework. Faced with me trying to find a short term gain for doing homework instead of playing video games you said: “If you don’t brush your teeth today you will not feel the difference immediately but eventually if you don’t do it every day, you will get lots of cavities. If you eat only cake and ice cream today it may sound like a good idea and you may even avoid the tummy ache today but eventually it will lead to obesity. If you don’t do your homework today it may not affect in the least but if you repeatedly put it off it will have serious long term ramifications.”

As I recall you threw in, “for instance I am sure you will miss the television since you will not be able to watch it anymore and you will miss your computer since I will give it away to Good Will and you will miss your bicycle since you won’t be able to leave the house till your home work is done.” But I think that first part was the part I was supposed to get the life lesson from.

I don’t have a mother to give me penalties for not doing my homework anymore and I look deep trying to find something to motivate me to finish certain things. But where that fails I often just remember what you said about brushing my teeth. I often need little more.

Love Mike