CREATIVE ALTERATIONS

It is impossible for us to wake up and not begin to think creatively… we have actually been designed FOR constant creativity and improvement.  Distance running is an active expression of this creativity.  A brief look at the history of humanity and it is clearly seen… CREATIVITY --without dispute.  How many uncountable and untold ways we have altered and improved! 

The only interference, and sadly sometimes bringing a worsening human condition, follows when a person chooses; through time and redundancy; to draw up unnaturally.  They have then chosen to stop with their own inspiration, dreams and vision.  They have ceased from their own ideas and subsequently have no physical expression which carries creative and unique fruit.  How unnatural it is to live after another man’s vision!  How natural it is to daily seek creative alterations to our own lives!  The avid distance runner is usually doing something of the sort!    

When a runner heads out the door thinking about their own passions; not just for running, yet for life all-together; they have numerous possibilities for creative alterations.  Their life there opens clearly to the spirit, mind and body.  Each effort in distance running is an open invitation to a creative alteration of any man or woman.  When efforts are approached with the conviction that the expression will be as it always is, or that one might do it as they have always done it, there is no growth or life.  Without creative alterations expected in the efforts we make, growth is severely limited if not stopped all together.

So, what does the lure of creative alteration provide for the distance runner?  Proceeding forward, we all move into our efforts… all efforts respectively different from one another.  They are all, however, abundant, demanding and requiring immediate and strong creative choice repeatedly.  Our creative choice in every efforts moment will not necessarily be as it has been before, but always subtly differing.  Sure, some efforts in running will seem so similar, yet they are never about pin-pointing and defining the experience… yet about the beauty of the effort itself.  A creative alteration has inevitably taken place!