Recovery?

I've made it up early for a morning run three weeks in a row, which really is more than I expected of myself. These two mile recovery runs are easy now, and I always take them too fast (this one came in at 21 minutes, including the lights and the minute I spent chatting with a friend I ran into). Today, to keep myself occupied, I was thinking about the difference between physical and mental stamina, how the body can do anything if only the mind won't interfere. I could practically run 2 miles on two broken legs at this point, but today, my mind didn't really want to do it, even on two fit legs. Yeah, I was a little sore after Sunday, and my left shin's been peeping again lately, but mostly, I was just a little bored, a little underutilized, my mind thought. Of course, the real challenge is to remember that these runs are about recovery, about training the body to use and conserve differently, also, about keeping the mind impatient rather than worn out. Being bored is good, being slow is good, and getting out when we don't really want to is best of all.