I need to buy a pair of running shoes, and quickly! I feel the overwhelming need to go running, and don’t have the proper footwear. Why the urgency??? Well, if you suddenly felt the overwhelming desire to do hard core exercise, wouldn’t you want to act right away, before you convinced yourself you weren’t really capable? I figure I’d better ‘get on it’ before the urge subsides!
I don’t think I’ve owned a pair of actual running shoes since college. Sure, I’ve had ‘gym shoes’, but not full on running shoes. My last pair was probably worn out and thrown out at least 10 years ago. They were a pair of ‘trail running’ sneaks, as I used to run in Helyar Woods just beyond Cook College of Rutgers University. I remember those morning runs vividly – the sites and smells of the Northern forests are still with me today. Before Helyar woods, I ran on the South Downs behind Sussex University in the UK. What an enchanting run that was! Everywhere you turn in the English countryside you half expect to come across fairies, or at least a fairy ring…
Today, I am blessed that I have a large nature reserve close enough to run to – and in. I fully intend to see the wonders of these Southern woods and allow my running spirit to roam.
Over the last 10 years or so I have often thought that I ’should’ run. Running would be a fast track to getting my trim figure back, as running is an efficient way to turn your metabolism into a full time hot burning furnace. But every time I though of it, running seamed a chore, and one I convinced myself I had no time for.
Today, I feel I have no choice but to run. I have been on this fitness challenge for 46 days, and I am stronger, healthier and have more endurance than I have had since University. I feel the only way to fully USE this new power my body has is to RUN.
I will obey this overwhelming need to run. I will get my shoes tomorrow and run for the first time in over 10 years tomorrow evening. I am taking this Challenge to the next level!
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Originally posted by: Melanie Milletics at: Womens Running
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