i recently started running. i am NOT a runner. i AM a dancer, a walker, a tennis player, a golfer... pretty much everything but a runner. i run for 3 reasons; i am chasing a ball (tennis or soccer), there is an emergency, or i am playing a game at work. i can only remember one time in my life when i said to myself, "i'm gonna go for a run," and liked it when i was done. there is also the problem of having old lady hips at the age of 23. i danced on my middle and high school dance teams and now have hips that ache almost everyday. it pretty much sucks! if i run more than 4 minutes at a time, they scream at me for the next 3 days, "al, why did you torture us?"
so, you may be asking yourself, "al, why have you started to run?" that, blog-readers, is a very good question. here is the answer: i am tired of driving 20 miles, each way, to get to the nearest gym to work out. i wanted something that i can do in my gymless town that doesn't require me to spend butt loads of money on equipment and videos i probably won't use. and why not just walk? because it is not doing anything for my fading girlish figure. and, i recently went to the hip doctor. he gave me hip stretches. they actually work (for the most part)!!!!
so now i run... it is defiantly not fast or far, but it is coming along.
AND... i'm kind of starting to like it. *gasp*
Doing the same thing myself. My girlish figure is vanishing...plus I figure if I'm going to be flying planes all over the world I'd better have the cardio power to get away from terrorists/elephant stampedes/man-eating tigers/explosions and whatnot. I never really liked running at all, though. And it's even worse when it's 90 degrees out. If I didn't have my iPod to play some angry music on, I probably wouldn't be able to do it for two minutes, let alone twenty. But I'm getting better...
ReplyDeleteThis is Andy, by the way. I just discovered that you had a blog! Good, now I can get chapter and verse of your Norway trip.