Getting off the blocks is perhaps the biggest challenge, you may have made the dire promise to yourself the umpteenth time, burnt some good cash to invest in a snazzy set of uberlite vest and shorts to ‘guilttrip yourself into running and imagined your less than flattering figure to acquire some menacing rip in the not-too-distant-future, but pushing off is harder than you can imagine…
However, once you get those old pistons pumping and you put a few hundred yards behind you…things begin to look up infinitely…especially if were into some kind of physical activity in the past. The breathing is labored, your shins ache as the dreaded lactic acid buildup rears its ugly head and there is a knot in the pit of your stomach…but to counter that, you realize that a heady feeling is slowly welling up…from somewhere in the deep recesses of your being…a part where your mind and body both combine to propel you forward…that is what addiction to running is all about, although it may just be easier to let the moment pass, let the eyelids settle back and log one more hour of shuteye!
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