Running was a key element of my journey to middle-age athleticism. While never a gifted childhood athlete, and after two decades of sedentary consumption, I committed to complete my first triathlon, and running was the key.
I always hated running, after a Presidential Fitness Challenge in grade school.
Then, some other stuff happened. Prophesying a later adult life with strokes and heart attacks as a probable future, I resolved to lose weight and get healthy.
I’ve overcome shin splints, knee pain, and twisted ankles with physical therapy, resistance training, orthotics, posture correction, neuromuscular re-education (no kidding!), stretching, Triggerpoint therapy, Active Release Therapy, massage therapy, and running form training.
With assistance from coaches, I’ve completed dozens of races, including 5 marathons, obstacle course races, and triathlons. I’ve even been on my age group’s podium twice!
I’m just warming up.
Certainly, noone needs to commit what I’ve committed to running, but I’ve put a lot in, and I’ve gotten a lot back.
Furthermore, as a former sedentary, fat, alcoholic, non-athlete, I know anyone can do this. You can do this, too.
There she was, flying along in the near-dark of the shaded twilight trail, minding her own business, when, out of nowhere, something grabbed her, then blasted her through the air just as rapidly and unexpectedly. She responded valiantly, reflexively, with a defensive sting, her last act in life. It was all over. Just before. There […]
There I was at work. I stood up from my chair. It was brutal. Knee pain. My knees felt like someone had driven a nail from the outside of each one, directly through the hinge of each knee, toward my body’s midline. The right knee was worse, but either one would be sufficient to convince me […]
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