To call this week’s exercise plan actual running, is stretching the truth a bit. I am walking for 4 minutes, and then jogging for 2. Wash, rinse repeat 5 times. That being said I felt much better today and it seemed a bit easier today than Tuesday or Wednesday. Not as easy as yesterday (and still not easy for me at all) as it was being my “Rest from Running” day.
Now I have read quotes, blogs, websites, magazines and other printed materials of actual marathon runners where they mention this "Euphoria" feeling they experience when running. Uh huh. That is crap, right? Running is hard; it hurts, and never feels good. Poo Poo it is. Bone squealing, joint stretching, muscle hardening torture work. Didn’t we outlaw torture in the Geneva Convention? Why do we (or at least I) submit ourselves to this pain? Anyhow, I am convinced this Euphoria feeling is a myth, told to wannabe runners (like me) to get us on that treadmill. By the time we figure out that it does NOT exist, we have already gone down the running path for a bit and are less likely to turn around. Euphoria is a lie!
That is what I believed, until today…
When I ran my first 2 minutes today, right around 1:57 I felt something. Euphoria? Maybe. It felt good. It felt right. It was like a breath of fresh air. I rubbed up against that feeling; I touched it ever so lightly. It lasted for around 2 seconds, it was awesome. It was if the heavens opened and I saw the golden palace I have been promised, and my body responded with physical glee. Then it hurt again. Boy did it hurt. I tried to reach that feeling over the remaining 4 cycles of running, and even tho most of today’s exercise felt better than it has up to this point, I never reached that Wow feeling again. But, I do I have hope now. Maybe, just maybe this Ephoria thing is NOT a lie, maybe there is some truth in it, I look forward to reaching it again.
Perhaps running will not always suck, I have hope...
-Aaron
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