I run, you run, we are running

• Posted by Rachel de Blanc March 17, 2017 #Clocks back  945 views
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  Hello
  
  I run. I do so because it keeps me sane, keeps me healthy and gives me space. I have been running throughout the 'Winter' which has been mild and quite dry here in London and I am missing the acidic crisp January mornings that heightened my senses and kept my on my toes.
  
  As winter turns to Spring, my early morning companion is departing and so I am increasingly running at dawn or in daylight. No more tripping over scurrying foxes.
  
  My clothing is changing too. Full length running tights ow too warm and shorts return. Stealthy tight wearing confined to the drawer again.
  
  I look forward to Spring and re-birth and of growth warmth and sunlight, but for the covert and secretive Winter and darkness are our friends. Wrapping cosseting layers are able to conceal discrepancies and nuances, whereas Summer is brazen, revealing and open. The body here is fine - I run, remember?, but unplucked, unshaven and evidently masculine I cannot run quickly enough from reality.
  
  Here's to a great summer, of record breaking romantic evenings and balmy star lit caresses. But let some of us anticipate the gentle embrace of a concealing drape and the cosseting wrap of a softly hung profile.
  
  You can run, but evidently some must also hide.
  
  Rachel x