We catch up while huffing and often puffing up the steep incline. We high five each other at the top of each span. Once we touch the pole on the Charleston side (it does not count if you do not touch it) we turn around and head back. We run too early to see the sun rise over the water or to see dolphins. We do see a cargo ship with its accompanying tug boat every now and then.
It is all beautiful even in the darkness perhaps because of the darkness. And yet there are the scary moments when shadows appear to morph into monsters, you know the kind that hide under your bed. And sometimes there is an actual person who literally runs out of the shadows.
Yes, there are those people who say we are crazy and muse that they would never get up to run that early. Generally those are the people who do not exercise at all so I do not heed their advice at all.
I will admit that I feel some peer pressure to get up and run at 4:30am. But I do not mind. I love the camaraderie between us. There is something that bounds us together before the sun comes up. And I would not give that up for the world.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
What are the habits that you have formed? What is it that keeps you doing them? Are there bad habits that you should shed?
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