thirty days with a grateful heart - day four

day four - the views from the top

(of the jjonb)

Tuesdays are one of my favorite run days.  On Tuesdays, we run the jjonb which stands for JJ (Jeff Jones, my running partner who created the route) out and back.  I'll be honest though, I haven't always liked Tuesdays.  Especially when I first started running with JJ and had to walk the majority of each of the five big uphills on the route while he and Steph kept getting further and further away from me.  And then I hated it even worse when I came back from California this summer and it was six thousand degrees outside, even at 5 am, and not only could I not even begin to run the uphills, I was doing a pretty good job of stinking it up on the downhills, too. 

But then September came.  And finally, after religiously running the same route Tuesday in and Tuesday out for six months, something clicked.  And it has continued to click.  And now I can run, unbroken, all of the ups except the tip top of the first peak from the 32nd street trailhead.  And I can run every bit of all of the downs, even the rockies, even in the dark.  And, on days like today, when the weather is crisp, and the company is good, and the running comes easy, and I am at peace - on days like today - I like to look around, take in the view from the top, and be grateful that I am right where I am.  Right where I am supposed to be.  It's all good.