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Habit Trumps Hibernation...

Saturday, 14 February 2015 00:10

By Marnie Walth (BismarckTribune.com)

We humans are truly creatures of habit. From the earliest of times, habit and routine has dictated much of what we do each and every day of our lives. Like you, I have good habits and bad. I’m thankful for the good ones and have sworn off the bad ones, effective Jan. 1.

One of my favorite “good” ones hits 5:30 a.m. every Tuesday. For most of my adult life, Tuesday mornings routinely begin with an hour-long run that includes a group of like-minded friends. Like clockwork, we meet each week at the YMCA to explore on foot a different parts of not-yet-awake community. While the town is mostly silent, we are chatty bunch and I have no doubt people hear us coming before they see us....

Because the habit is so ingrained into our collective psyches, crawling out of bed in any kind of weather to join the gang seems to be the accepted MO for most.

And so, these past two Tuesday mornings when the temperature was below zero and the wind chill was well into negative double digits, routine trumped hibernation instincts and we ran. READ MORE