Running is nothing more than a series of arguments between the part of your brain that wants to stop and the part that wants to keep going. Running does not define who we are, it refines who we are. The trouble with running is that by the time you realise that you’re not in shape for it, it’s too far to walk back. When nothing goes right, go run. There are always challenges to running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put one’s house keys. A good laugh and a long run are the two best cures for anything. Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must – just never give up.. Running – if it was easy every-one would do it. Run, so that the goals in your life continue to get bigger, instead of your belly. Running is a mental sport – any-one who does it is insane. One run can change your day; many runs can change your life.
A quote on Andy Fogg’s Strava run entry: Strava run GPS
running on 70
This is a blog about running and age, or age and running. To start not at the beginning, I have passed my seventy fifth birthday and I have run my hundredth parkrun. On Saturday I will be running my hundred and second parkrun. So you can see I have not started with at the beginning, but am in fact nudging towards the end. I have also run two 10k races and in 2019 I will be training for a half marathon.
Although this blog is about running, the real purpose is about the what and why of running for a person of age ( to use the modern figure of speech). At his time we may think we want to slow down, to take it easy, but what some of us need is a bit of a competition. I want to feel that I am making progress at something, and what better way to do it than running.
running on 70
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