running, away

receptors on your calf muscles send the signal, time to go. tension builds, energy explodes, toes push the ground away. rejecting gravity for a second. heart pumps blood out. oxygen is burnt and received and burnt again. push. your eyes close, images floating on your eyelids fade fluorescent into the dark. skin glows elastic. push. abs contract, power centred. push some more. people, buildings, landscapes, moments, thoughts, words. away. it feels true, this body, this moving, this running, away.

running day seven

Montevideo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

it feels like you won't make it but you make it and then it gets a bit easier and you keep going and then it feels like you won't make it, but you do.

running day one

palm trees. fat bellies. bicycles. headphones. dogs on leashes. bikinis. blisters. runners. motorcycles. birds. sand in the wind. tall buildings. sunlight. geometrical shapes. breath. heart. beat.