Friday, September 9th, 2005
I thought it might take a long time to get there. Several weeks of agony, seconds seemed like hours. I could only focus on getting more oxygen. I gasped for breath. I forced my leaden legs to take more steps to finish my time. Somewhere on the back stretch, as I turned into married student housing, everything faded away. Suddenly breaths came easier. The road seemed less crowded. It was just me and the road. The sky above and the pavement below. I lost myself in the trance of hearing my feet hit the pavement. I meditated on the weightless moment between one foot rising and the other foot hitting the ground. Suddenly, I knew…I was in the zone.