Why And How I Became A Runner - AskMen

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The next day everything hurt from the eyebrows down. My ankles were especially in agony, and I’d broken both of them (at separate times, thankfully) as a teen, so I thought I probably had some arthritis that meant I’d never be able to run. My knees and shins and back and ribs all ached like I’d been pushed down a flight of stairs, beaten with wolverines, then shoved in front of a speeding armored car. It took a full week for the pain to go away.

So much for that idea.

But humans have a short memory for failure. A few months later I tried again. Same distance. Same pace. Same result.

And a third time, because I’m an idiot, I tried the same methods. Definition of insanity or something.

MoBikeFed comment: After this show start, the author went on to become an avid runner. What did he do?

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