The great outdoors heals you

Writing from Lake George before heading home...
Saw the sun rise this morning over the lake and the town still asleep without the thousands that will be filling the sidewalks and stores. Some stores so cheesy they have signs that celebrate their cheesiness! I woke early going to fill up the car for the ride home and get a newspaper to get ready to re-enter the busy world I live in.
I drive around town looking for a simple grocery store, gas station--there are not many in resort towns. I see the sun sparkling off the lake, I see the garbage and street cleaners and then I start seeing them. People running on this cool morning, numerous now filling the sidewalks and roads. Some have a race bib pinned to their shirts and shorts. These people look as if they have been awake for hours, many smiling as they run with friends in small packs.
Makes me smile as runners seem to get so much more out of life, use more of the day then most.
It reminds me of how I have shared with people certain things I have seen in my own runs and try to explain that only runners get to see things that people in a car never do.
I came upon the house I live in now (likely die in hopefully in many years from now!). The house was a private sale so there was no information concerning it known to realtors or in any newspaper. I ran a different route that morning when I saw the "for sale" sign on the lawn. We ended up negotiating down the sales price and based on other homes on our street seem to have made a great deal!
These runners are up while the rest of the town slowly awakes. These runners getting ready to push their bodies in a small, simple 5k race. This morning I wasn't going to run, but now I'm anxious. Start wondering if its too late to sign up and run this race which will likely include streets that pass beautiful parts of Lake George and perhaps see things in this beautiful region that I, in a car, won't see from my car. These runners, up early on a sleepy Sunday morning seem to make so much more out a day and see and experience so much more.