four 7.5‑minute miles!

So much for that goal.

I like my goals to be all-day suck­ers, but this time I hit my goal the very next time I got on the tread­mill. Ham­mer­head says this is OK because so much of run­ning is men­tal, but I real­ly thought that I had picked an ambi­tious enough goal so that I work on it for a while.

On the oth­er hand, it is kind of nice to hit my goals, and it is a nice lit­tle ego boost that I can run four sev­en-and-a-half minute miles. I actu­al­ly hit four miles at 29:47, so I very slight­ly beat seven-and-a-half.

Oth­er things about today that have made it a good day: I med­i­tat­ed for twen­ty min­utes this morn­ing, and chant­ed the Heart of Great Per­fect Wis­dom Sutra. Tonight I washed all my dirty dish­es before mak­ing din­ner, and din­ner was a pret­ty tasty Har­ris Ranch steak. Yum!

Speak­ing of med­i­ta­tion, I am plan­ning to go to Tas­sa­jara in two weeks for four days. It’s a trip with some oth­ers in my Wednes­day night sit­ting group. I haven’t been going Wednes­days much late­ly because of my work sched­ule, but that should change pret­ty soon (note foreshadowing).

More news: Fri­day after­noon I gave my super­vi­sor my two-week notice. I’m going back to con­sult­ing. I must be a fool to think that this is a good time to go back to build­ing web­sites, except that I have clients that want me to do work for them. I like the free­dom that comes from being an inde­pen­dant and I’m hop­ing that I can keep things down to about 15 or 20 hours per week so that I can pur­sue some of my oth­er inter­ests – like get­ting back into school and being around oth­er active cre­ative peo­ple. Hope­ful­ly some of it will rub off on me!

So I’m pret­ty excit­ed about my life right now. There’s lots going on, and lots of change in the wind.