the sputtering start!

I finally had it in around December of last year. I was running out of excuses without doing some actual running and still didn’t have anything to show for it. I had all the usual challenges that you may have or had before you kicked it – access to a safe running environment, time etc – but I think the biggest hurdle is that of inertia. That’s right, the same law of motion applies to humans as well. If you’re out of shape and willing to correct the unhappy situation, you’ll just have to grit your teeth and push yourself out everyday early in the morning. The pain of that can be enormous, but as the cliché goes – there’s no gain....

And so I started, initially it was the adjoining roads around the building where I shared an apartment. I quickly realized that it was not just about munching away at the miles and feeling the calories melt away, it was also about dodging marauding buses and sidestepping shit piles. I was surprised at how easily and quickly I was running out of breath and that my shins and knees felt that someone had poured concrete in them. The temptation to give up was just too great.....