I guess it can be said like this. Not that I am running the long distances as Forrest did, nor as fast, but I run neverthelles.<\/p>\n
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It has been a year a couple of weeks ago since I started running, after many years not understanding why so many people like it. Why is it so popular. I never understood. Yet I decided to give it a chance, mainly because I started to feel the need to move, to do something, as the sitting in chair that I was doing at job has started to take its toll.<\/p>\n
Well, with one huge impulse I got into it. The first weeks and months were quite diffucult. Mainly becuase I could not run for longer perioed of time, I was getting better only slowly (and I started to run in middle of November). It took me over six months to get over 5 km.<\/p>\n
Before I moved to Frankfurt I wasn’t running for a week or two and everything I reached in previous months seemed to disappear. When I run for the first time here, I haven’t been able to cover more than 2 km. Terrible.<\/p>\n
However it got better. I do not know why, but about a month ago I reached the 5 km again and than I decided to cover longer distances. Each run I run a bit farther.\u00a0 I made a bet with myself I will get to 10k before Christmas. I was adding about 200-250 metres every time, yet it seemed not to be enough. So I started adding a bit more, about 500 metres until I run almost 8,5 km on Friday.<\/p>\n
Today I tried to conquer myself and add 1 km. I did more than that – I added almost 2 km to the Friday’s distance and thus I am at 10k at the moment. And under 1 hour. It may be the chemicals speaking, but I feel great. A bit of pain in legs, but knees do not protest so far.<\/p>\n
So it may yet come that I will run a halfmarathon the following summer which is something a friend of mine is trying to provoke me into. Seems like she is going to succeed.<\/p>\n
Who would have believed it that me, who has almost always opposed running (and prefered cycling), will be thing about running a halfmarathon :-). Life surely leads to funny places.<\/p>\n
TheFlyingman over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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