Stopped at the top of my loop this morning to catch my breath and the sky just did this thing over the rooftops — all that orange and pink stacking up over the neighbors’ houses.
I’ve been running this same route for 5 weeks now, and today was the first time I actually stopped instead of pushing through to finish my time. My knee’s been asking for a break anyway.
Funny how a 15-minute run turns into standing there staring at clouds. I’ve got 3 more applications to send out before lunch and a stack of tabs open with job postings, but for about 90 seconds none of that felt urgent.
Half the reason I even left the house was to get away from my inbox for a while. Worth it, I think, even with the knee talking to me the whole way back.