The Ripple Effect

It’s funny how things happen and today I was able to see things happen over my ten mile run and they likely wouldn’t have happened if the previous event didn’t take place.

Last night I planned to do 15 miles today and I had to make myself to get going today. I probably would have kept laying around if I hadn’t wanted to get out. Anyway, I decide before I left to do ten instead of fifteen. I postponed the 15 to Thursday.

So, I take off on the trail and at various parts of the trail there are small  wooden bridges that are often uneven.  I came across one of these small bridges at the 2-3 mile mark. My foot hit the wood on the bridge causing me to loose balance and eventually do an arm out slide as if I was stealing 2nd base.

At the opposite side of the trail there was a homeless guy just standing. He saw it all. He was like are you ok? I said yes and he asked if I was bleeding and I said no. I stood up for a second dusted the dirt off and while I was dusting it off the guy was like you show me compassion. I don’t think compassion was the word he was looking for but I knew what he meant.

After he said that I had caught my breath and was good to go. Had I not been taking my time to go to the trail I may not have fallen and likely wouldn’t have met the guy. So, I get going and at the 6 or 7 mile mark I stop for maybe a minute of two to stretch then kept going. At the end I was less than a quarter mile from the finish and I passed a friend going the opposite direction. Had I not stopped to stretch I likely wouldn’t have seen my friend.

All in all after my encounter with the bridge and the homeless guy I  knew it would be my next blog entry. It wasn’t until the end that I would know  what I wanted to say: I can attest that everything happens for a reason.

Until Thursday…

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