- How to take out a potential attacker. I imagine if anyone approached me on the path I run, I’d not try to fight them but probably run into the street. It’s fairly heavily traveled so I could stop someone and the attacker would flee. I don’t expect anyone to jump out at a runner while cars are passing but you never know.
- How my right shoes is always looser than my right.
- The different smells I experience: laundry, fishy man-made lake, car exhaust, various plants/shrubbery.
- The piece of fiction I’m working on. I’m trying to figure out if a woman whose previous boyfriend cheated on her (with another man) could ever be involved in an MMF relationship. Would readers believe that?
- How annoying my headphone wires are. They always pull down under my shirt; I need some with a clip to keep them at a certain length.
- Depending on the music, I think about how there are no true rock gods anymore. When I was a teenager, I had all the hair bands (still going strong in the early 90s!). But who do kids have now??
- How old my babies are. Elliot is a four year old, y’all. And I have no idea how that happened.
- What other people are doing in their homes. Are they making dinner? Watching TV? Are they talking to one another?
- I think about food a lot, even tough I am rarely hungry DURING a run. I think of it in terms of what I can now eat since I am burning off all these calories.
- I try not to think about the physical pain but it’s mostly an under the surface thought. It skims along as a constant during that time. It’s present but not in the forefront.
- I oftentimes think about past vacations.
- I think about how I have to go home and still do laundry and cleaning and deal with children.
- Ultimately, I think about how no matter how much life is sucking, running is always worse.
What are your thirteen things??
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I think, “relax, keep going, relax, keep going”. I’ve been having issues with my feet so running has been super painful. Thank goodness for my awesome podiatrist that’s helping to fix me!
OMG I wish I could run. I’ve never been able to. I’m sure that if I were attacked while running it would be at the end of the run, when I don’t have any gas left to get away. I have nightmares like that…when a monster is after me and I just get tired, and he catches me. LOL
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I don’t run. But I do walk. And it’s funny, I think a lot of the same things when I’m out walking. Right down to how annoying my earbud wires are.
First of all, kudos to you for being a runner! I do a lot of walking, and YES, I think about how I’d deal with an attacker. It’s always good to be prepared!
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I always mean to think about my WIP while getting some exercise, but generally just end up day dreaming.
I think about similiar things on a walk, (these knees don’t run), so I totally understand. If 13 isn’t a joke, sorry you have to do something you don’t like.
Happy T13,
~Xakara
My Week
when i used to run #8 was my favorite passtime. it took me out of the physical sensations into imagination and often things I observed via eyes or ear in yards, thru windows, at curbside would trigger story ideas or maybe just make it into a WIP scene in passing. what voyeurs we are!