If my body is a temple,

then are my long slow distance runs on Sunday, church?

I don't mean that to be disrespectful in any way. I'm a spiritual person, raised in a church, but struggling with issues with organized religion for some time now. And, I've always felt strongly that devotion doesn't have to be at some set time and place.

Just a musing from today's run, where I set a new distance PR (8 miles - I may still make 10 by the end of the year), and improved my pace from my last 2 longest runs by about 25 seconds a mile. Or maybe I felt guilty, passing the handful of churches I go by on this route, all busy, in the advent season.

Regardless, "my body is my temple" is a thought I need to hang on to during the last two weeks of the year, and as a theme for 2006. Maybe I can get it tatooed around my wrist, like a pretty permanent bracelet.