If everything goes according to plan, I will be through with my warm up and belting out one of the first intervals of my track workout when you first read this. It’s a really nasty workout. 15 minute warm up jog. Four minutes at 6:50-7:00 pace followed by 90 seconds of recovery. Repeat ten times. Ten minute cool down. I am not sure how in the world I am gonna make this happen. It exceeds my comfort zone and is actually more difficult than any (running) workout I’ve ever done. But I’m going to try.

In order to make it happen, I’ll need to be getting into it at about 4:30. That means I need to be walking out my door at 4:15. And in order to make that happen, I have laid out my run gear, packed my gym bag, and prepared my hydration.

Similarly, I will now organize my thoughts and feelings about you as I drift off to sleep. It really helps when my love for you is at the front of my mind when I’m trying something hard. I draw on it for strength and energy. Like the perfect word dripping off the tip of my tongue in verbal battle. Like a great wind carrying me across the sky.

I love you. I’d like to honor my love for you by placing it at the forefront of everything I do when I am with you tomorrow. I want to kiss you from love, take you inside me from love, and speak to you from love and with love. I will hold you and run my fingertips all over you. I will give you everything.