Imaginaining

Imaginaining

Imaginaining is a play with words out of the idea of drawing power out of imagination while training.  The beauty of our imagination reveals much unbounded energy that no plan could offer.  It is a world unreachable, never to be, always striving, just beyond.   Unlike the predominant message, that hard work brings dreams to reality, the age old tale, a righteous tale unattainable for my run today.

It is not dreams coming true that matters as much to stay as they are, dreams.  To live the dream like a child at play.

So, how does one imaginaine, and how do we unleash it's full potential?

Body

My body feels so relaxed when I run, even at times when it hurts, when I feel heavy, feel slow, though relaxed and easiness carries me along.  Nothing stops me when I go, the speed I run is my speed, nothing else compares, no matter how much faster others may seem, my body is the most relaxed, feels the best, feels so strong, so loose.   Any tired or lethargic feeling I had previous to my run is gone.  Any frustrations or elusiveness, not a worry, as I am fully in control with no vice holding me.  I am one with my body, fully and completely...

Spirit

Whenever I go outside for a run, I am one with the elements.   The wind and the sun and the temperature, aligned perfectly to challenge me.  I can feel the wind pushing towards me when I need the challenge and it pushes at my back to help me with a break.  The trees, to my sides, are feeding the air, and how fresh and inspiring it is to inhale.  

I am one with the world while I am running as if it is speaking to me, aligned with me along my adventure.   The world is most alive while I run, it is as if the world itself wakes up in all places I pass through.

The world, actually, is a dream itself just the same.  When I run, I am running wherever I want to feel that I am running.  Whether on the sandy beach or in a jungle...  Even if I am not exactly there, I feel it, I imagine it.   I could even feel I am running in the worlds best marathons, on the best courses, even if where I actually am may not be so.

Soul

Everytime I set my foot outside for a run, I am already setting many world records.  I am already a world champion before I am even halfway through my run.   Regardless who runs by me, they have no understanding that it is me, who is the best, most awesome runner that has ever set foot.

That is the art of Imaginaining.   It is to feel, with no respect to any feedback of time or comparison to others, that we are the best that can be.  There are so many other factors that play in my life and with all of the constraints and setbacks, everytime I set out for a run, I am beating anyone in the entire world history.  If anyone were to be able to align exactly the same factors and experiences that I have had, there is no way they could match me.  Nobody understands what it takes for me to go for a run.   I am the best in the world, I am the best runner ever and when I run, I feel so great, so wonderful.

I set records, I win, I am the best at what I do.  The advantage is that everytime I run, I keep getting better, breaking even more records, getting faster, lasting longer.

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It is with imagination, where I run best.  I no longer am in pursuit of my dreams... I run in my dreams.

On race day, when it is me against others in a race, it does not matter to me who wins.   Most important to me, is doing my best and when I run I am the best regardless of anything else.

It is with imagination, how I run.  With imagination, how I train.   I do not need to care who is faster than me, who is way out of my physical reach...  They do not have what I have and if they did, I would definitely be way better than them.  

All that matters is what gets me out to run.