Going Deep

There's a wonderful blog post at Marathon Moms that struck a chord with me:

"I also promise, that, if you stick with it, one day, you'll go for a run, and you'll feel like you moved the earth. Besides giving birth to you and Ben, I don't think I've ever felt that powerful and strong. It's worth the miles to get to that place. You'll learn to rely on running like you would a best friend: spend some time with her, and you'll immediately fall into a comfortable, intimate rhythm that both plays to your strengths and exposes, and then improves, your weaknesses (especially when you're huffing up a hill). Mentally, you'll come to appreciate how imperative running is for processing everything from the mundane (what should I make for dinner?) to the massive (is this man the right man to marry?). Most of all, you'll discover that running is hardly ever about going faster. Running is, at its essence, about going deep."

The author is writing a letter to her young daughter. Read the entire posting.