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[quote=Anonymous]Running changed my life.  I started when I was 13 and randomly decided I wanted to run cross country in high school.  I went from not being able to run one lap to winning trophies each year for having run the most miles on my own during the summer.  I was never a super fast distance runner, but it made me feel like I could be an athlete, and that gave me the confidence to find a sport I really was great at.

It also saved me during the first year of the pandemic, when I couldn’t go to my bougie fitness classes anymore, and went back to running instead.  Running is the thing I keep coming back to, and will be with me always.  It’s my ride or die workout.

I’m 45 now and definitely slower than I was, and do have to really tend to recovery, stretching, etc.  I agree with others not to force it - which is true of any sport or athletic pursuit.  Some things are just not for us, and that’s fine.  I’ll never love soccer; oh well.

As my high school coach said, anyone can be a runner![/quote]

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