running

Since mid March I’ve been running between 4 to 6 times a week. The only breaks I took were for a colonoscopy (are you over 45? Get one…), a bout with Covid (yuck), and some family scheduling issues that led to a week-long break. Other than that I’ve been lacing them up most evenings and heading outside for a run. Nine-ish months in, what has been the effect? It’s been really good.

I’ve tried to make running a habit several times over the course of my adult life. The result of those efforts has been years (decades?) of no running at all. Over the pandemic I gave it another shot and made decent progress. By decent progress I went from a quarter mile to running 10 kilometers a few months later. The first run was the hardest. The measly quarter mile. I really thought I was going to puke.