Every time I buy a new pair of running shoes (I'm not a runner), I begin to think that maybe I could start running--very, very slowly--on a treadmill at the gym.
I'm not a runner. I decide, though, that maybe a little jog would be a good thing to help me shed some pounds and relieve the boredom of the elliptical machine.
So I jog (not run) for 5 minutes on the treadmill, and then I walk for 5 minutes. Then run another 5. I read I'm supposed to build up slowly.
That was easy, I think. But that night and this morning, I suffer the pains of sore muscles everywhere.
I begin to consider that running might actually be doing something to me--a good something--as evidenced by the sheer pain of it.
Could it be true that muscle soreness offers the evidence that something good is happening? Something strong is forming within me (something I don't get from the elliptical machine).
It's something so strong that I might just take off down this road into that unknown future.
When I'm sore in my heart and mind--just like in my muscles--that's evidence that something good is happening. Runners view pain differently from the rest of us. They welcome it in a sort of crazy, intense, and joyful way.
They know it's evidence.
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Are you a runner? Any advice?
