Oklahoma Running Mom

Running in Oklahoma adds new meaning to the phrase "Hot Mama."

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Freedom

I had my six week post baby check up yesterday and I'm officially free to exercise. HOORAY! I celebrated by a late night run yesterday and tonight (by late night I mean 8:30 which is pretty late for me these days). As I was running in the freezing cold, I glanced up at the sky full of stars and thought of one of my favorite poems.

When I heard the learn'd astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
-Walt Whitman
Ah...it's great to be back!

5 comments:

Andrea said...

I'm so happy that you can run again! We've missed you!

Debbie said...

Go Girl!

Jess said...

"i really like reading your running blog! hope the first runs back are great! i won a bid in the NYC Half Marathon in March and am coaching a winter half marathon training program until then... got a little bored with the National Half in DC. happy running!"

Kami said...

I don't think that would be my reaction at all!

Janelle said...

you are sooooo lucky! i got just the opposite from my dr!