i have recently started running.
i can’t run very far, or very fast, but it’s a start.
some days i love it. some days i want to die. some days – most days – my knees kill me, and some days i wonder if i’ll ever be able to run for more than a few minutes at a time without needing to stop and walk for a bit.
but i can feel myself getting a little stronger everyday. and that’s a nice feeling.
still waiting for the fabled ‘runner’s high’, though…
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Hi, new reader here :) Just commenting to say that I’ve really been enjoying your blog. I took up running recently as well and can totally sympathize with you. I’m still chasing that elusive runner’s high. I feel good after, just not always during.
Maybe it’s a bad time to mention this, but I recently read somewhere that running really ages your skin – all that jiggling around apparently damages your skin cells.
I do like running, though. Once you get over that stage where you are so unfit you feel like you are going to die every time you run. But that only takes a few weeks if you run most days, in my experience.
great..!
i read something about ‘runner’s face’ in the guardian last week, actually. perhaps that’s related.
hmm.
ps. have any of my comments been coming through on your blogs yet?