The perfect run

Have you ever had what seemed like the perfect run? Where everything just seemed to feel right? Well, tonight was one of those for me. I wanted to do a recovery run after yesterday's 21 miles so when I got home I was ready. It had been raining all day and it had just stopped. I really wanted to try out my new shoes too and I really felt good all day, not too sore maybe just a little tired but not bad. I changed and headed out. The air was crisp from the recent rain. The roads were still wet all the way. There was a nice breeze blowing and I had brought my IPOD for a change just in case. I turned it on some of my better running songs. As I went to the next neighborhood, something clicked. I was running, feeling the breeze, the good music, seeing the colors in the western sky and I wasn't even struggling. It felt really good! At that moment I could have run forever. I guess maybe this is the runners high. I had to make myself run slower and I had to make myself walk 30 seconds at 1.5 miles just because I didn't want to injure anything. I would have never though that after yesterdays long run that I would feel that way, if nothing else, one would think I wouldn't want to run for a while. That's not the case. I think maybe today I really became a runner!