After such a lonnnng day it feels like i’ve just had a nap just a nap to recover, but I haven’t yet!
I know time is closing in and it’s about time to do it again when I hear the distance tap with a key card down the hall, ‘tap.tap.tap.tap. “Housekeeping”, which I’m totally appreciative for, but I dread hearing on mornings like this one.
…here we go again, even though I can’t find it in myself to do it again.
sad, I know. But imagine where I’m coming from. No one I know or even heard of can understand how I feel right now. When I talk about my runs my words are in vain with most responses like, ‘I bet it’s tough out there’ or ‘I can only imagine’ or Ouu, here’s a good one, ‘I’ve always wanted to do that’. Sigh.
I feel like these miles are taken for granted allot of times. It doesn’t make it easy to run when it seems like my running doesn’t matter, especially to the people in need of Hope, the ones that I’m running for. Mentally I love what I do, because it helps so many people that I’ll probably never meet. I think about my life being one of the people u read about who has used their life in full dedication to the betterment if mankind! But will it be?
I know it’s lonely at times because I find myself doing what I’m doing like no one else is doing it. So in that respect, I dig it, but dag…is lonliness the price to pay to follow your dreams?
-Jp (laid out spread across the bed blogging dead tired with one eye open and sore from a cold, late, rainy Monday night…About to pass out. any. second…n..o…w…..)
I have to give a very sincere ‘Thanks’ to Allen, the GM at the Holiday Inn Express in Tupelo for ensuring we weren’t camping out in the car over the weekend. We apologize for the extended request but are thankful for your understanding at this time!
I have to cheer on the Saints for the 5 years ago Hurricane that put the city under water, and has bounced back with an opportunity to win the Super Bowl! Go Saints!
I had to let this one marinate for a minute before I put it up… Friday afternoon we back traced to Memphis to visit the Civil Rights Museum at the historic “Lorraine Motel”. You just ‘FEEL’ the history when you step out the car. The site of Martin Luther King’s assassination does something to you. You look up at the staircase were MLK spent his last seconds alive and and vividly imagine being there many years ago. You cant help but to look across the street to see the angle of where the shooter mounted to King’s room #306. Inside the people were just as friendly as if it were opening day of the museum. We walked, looked and read at all of the actual memories that took place during the Civil Rights Movement. (No Pictures are allowed) There was a :30min. documentary called “The Witness” of the man who spend the last few minutes with Martin and paints a perfect picture for an awesome point of view of that day.
There is NOTHING like walking the same walk as the historic figures we’ve come to know today. I walked in to the Civil Right Museum thinking I knew allot and seen it all, but I left the CRM KNOWING -right there in Memphis- that the fight & struggle for Hope is just as real then as it is now, only it’s disguised in 2010.
You can take the Dreamer but you can never take the Dream! -JP
Man, what an interesting week!
I have to give a warm super BIG Shout Out to Jazzy over at the Fairfield Inn in East Memphis! She gladly opened her doors and the staff was A+, thank you for the hospitality and the Jim n Nick’s BBQ referral! The BREAD! THE BREAD!!! Thanks Greg over at the Jim n Nicks, your customer service was excellent and my team and I really enjoyed our first Jim n Nick’s experience!
J. Sisnett, I really appreciate you coming through with the visits and allowing us to receive shipments to your crib. From day one you and Radida have always been my favorite brahs, and it shows, thanks nupe! Let’s get that India talk poppin!
What can I say??? Dr. Frederick M. Azar and the entire staff at The Campbell Orthopedic Clinic, you have no idea how my recent visit last week restored my confidence in this right knee of mine, and now that I KNOW it’s okay, I’m back with my Super-man cape on. Their Clinic is soo impressive one of my Frat brother ‘Jevon’ here in Memphis asked where I went to get my knee checked out and when I told him Campbell, he replied, “Yea, their like in the top 5 in the country” now that’s awesome!
Campbell Orthopedic Clinic Staff
Of course, how can you forget ‘On The Border’? OTB has been very instrumental in providing food after a long days run/work! So much so, we don’t need menus. We take our seat, order our water, ice tea and M.dots ‘Arnold Palmer’ please, then our favorite Tacos! What are they??? I’ll show you a picture the next time we stop!
Big Ups’ and THANK YOU!!!
Back Tracking to Downtown Memphis to visit HISTORY at the Civil Rights Museum! Duh… This will be an awesome experience!
Hmm, I agree with Morgy here:
I had a great run today. Nothing feels better then to do your thing regardless of the elements outside! There’s freedom in it! I felt the pinch in my knee from my IT Band the Doctor told me about, after a few miles but I focused in, blocked it out and ran through it.
Running in the rain is fun because it does remind you of being a kid again stomping in the puddles and getting wet & dirty simply for the fun of it. Ahhh, you gotta love LIFE! Stay active people, it helps you in more ways then one: Mind, Body & Soul!
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