Today, write about a weird craving. What qualifies as “weird” is up to you, of course. It could be an intense food craving, a weird combination of foods you love, or whatever you want.
For me, when I was training for my first marathon, I started jolting awake in the middle of the night desperate for red Gatorade and peanut butter on crackers. I was like a junkie looking to score and couldn’t go back to sleep without them. By the time race day came, I was carrying both everywhere I went, every single day. And, so the story I will write today is about running and the mental journey of running long distances, and some bullshit I had allowed into my life at that time that I was literally running away from… but it starts with jolting awake desperate for red Gatorade and peanut butter on crackers, you dig?