Proof that running is a mental thing – or – glad it’s not just me who is susceptible to a good read.
Weeks after my reintroduction to running my first 5K in 30 some years, I’m getting ready to go out for a little run again. First I tape up my recalcitrantly inflamed ankle. Next, Ace wrap my torn, aching hamstring. Then the usual stuff: shorts, shirt, heart rate monitor, cell phone, and I’m ready to go. Turns out that running has only gotten harder, not easier, as my physical therapist and sports medicine doc can attest. So why do I still do it? I admit that most days I’m mystified myself.
If we are, as Christopher McDougall posits, born to run, why is it so hard, or nearly impossible, for most of us? I’m two years late to the party, reading McDougall’s 2010 tome, Born to Run, long after everyone else has already tried and given up on barefoot running and buying Chia pets to make their own chia seed elixir…
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The Muddy Masochist 
Thanks for the reblog.
Good luck with your running. It will be interesting to follow your progress. Thanks for stopping by and following my blog.
Huffygirl
Thankyou, likewise!