I Have Run into Health
When I was in college and on the baseball team, they had us run sprints (tons of them and tons more for pitchers). This made my knees start to swell and took me from being somebody who was kind of fast to someone who could barely move. I eventually got into shape to get past that problem. I am sure that it made the coach wonder though, from "We'll be runnin' wild this year.", thinking that I might steal a lot of bases, to "What in the hell happened to our speedster".
After college, I went for several years with my main exercise being the playing of softball, but the older one gets the more one aches, until . . .
I found running again, in the form of distance running. I can credit my daughter, who is seriously into running, but nonetheless, it has done wonders for my health.
Just like in college, I had to get past the injury stage, probably because I over did it to start, but now it is an addiction without which I would find it hard to live.
I belong to a running group which runs almost every weekend, including in the winter. We call the winter races the snowflake series. Believe me, we must be a bunch of flakes running in twenty degree weather, but it is never without smiles on our faces and never without feeling good once the run is over.
The New Year is coming. Are you looking for a new activity? I heartily suggest that you try running.
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