I think I'm stymied by the fact that the looming terrible force that I must overcome, the obstacle that stands between me and the true potential for success, is something as simple as going to bed earlier. It is such a mundane, everyday hurdle that it is simply too easy to put aside and delay for five minutes, only to have that five minutes become an hour. I also realize that I really do have to cut out all the little distractions that keep me from doing the simple things like going to bed. No more RSS news feeds from digg or the BBC, Wired News or Extremetech. No more email subscriptions to PCMagazine or Ha'aretz. I should be checking email for no more than five minutes, because I have no email to read. And then I should sleep.

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Sometimes, you just go out and run. Times like that, it takes no effort. You don't have to set your mind adrift; it settles there without direction. Five minutes and an hour pass as if they were the same amount of time. You don't really fatigue or tire. You just...run.

Its almost as natural as breathing....sometimes.



As a reference, 'easy' running for me is, at the moment, right around 6:30 pace (mile), with a heart rate of 124.