{"id":573891804,"date":"2019-12-04T23:04:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T04:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891804"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:58:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T21:58:36","slug":"to-shine-a-light-on-my-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/12\/04\/to-shine-a-light-on-my-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"To shine a light on my thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is where I am on running, on having to sit it out for most of the year: I can now move around a bit. I am not always winded. I have to re-remember how to run uphill. I&#8217;m still slow, but then I haven&#8217;t been fast since high school, but I can manufacture a little burst every now and then. My foot feels much better, which is the best part of it all. I haven&#8217;t taped it up in a few days in a row, and I&#8217;m running without binding the thing, too. <\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m probably still months removed from wanting to run &#8212; it&#8217;s funny, I see people riding their bikes and I think &#8220;I&#8217;m jealous,&#8221; I&#8217;ve never seen a person running and thought &#8220;I wish I could be doing that right now &#8212; there is a certain meditative quality of a good run, when you can move the body without too much suffering. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe it was the evening or the circumstance, but I remembered that this evening. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B5q5rgklxP1\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; 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Spotlit five deer with it, even though that was not the intention. Great halo for running. Check them out. #NightRunning #NotSoStealthyNightMission<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kennydsmith\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;\" target=\"_blank\"> Kenny Smith<\/a> (@kennydsmith) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2019-12-05T00:17:50+00:00\">Dec 4, 2019 at 4:17pm PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The light is great, mind you. The photo is blurry because I took that, mid-stride, running downhill. Even with all of those limitations, you can still easily see your way. The view is even cleaner with the eye. <\/p>\n<p>The light is <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/one80light.com\/products\/h2-headlamp\">this one<\/a>. You wear it on your head. It&#8217;s lightweight, has an adjustable strap and all that. You don&#8217;t forget it is there, but it isn&#8217;t an encumbrance. I don&#8217;t think I could ride a bike with it, which I&#8217;d like to do, because you&#8217;d probably outrun the light. But it&#8217;s perfect for night runs. They cast a brilliant light to see where your feet are going, and it makes you visible to  people coming your way &#8212; as if they couldn&#8217;t hear me huffing and shuffling from a great distance.<\/p>\n<p>Where I also am on running: I&#8217;m not yet back to doing great distances. Oh tonight I was going to run four miles. Four whole miles! But then precisely at the 5K mark, or 3.1 miles, my knee felt a twinge. And as I am trying to get my various joints to work happily and, perchance to dream, in harmony, I called it a run. It didn&#8217;t hurt &#8212; my rationale, that is &#8212; that I came to this conclusion just in front of the neighborhood. So I finished my run at the 5K mark, turned off the head lamp and walked home by porch light. It was in the low 40s, which felt like a slight chill after a little run. The crickets are gone, the bullfrogs are quiet, the kids are all inside. That&#8217;s also meditative. <\/p>\n<p>I focus on spring, when I won&#8217;t have to miss the sound of insects and the aural landscape that comes with a happier season, when the sun sticks around longer, when I can a bike or run, or both!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is where I am on running, on having to sit it out for most of the year: I can now move around a bit. I am not always winded. 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