Running Shoes
I just ordered a pair of running shoes from Amazon – they will arrive tomorrow morning. I haven't run any sort of distance in 10 years. I'm still wondering why (why I bought the shoes, not why I haven't run).
My eldest daughter has been talking about doing a 'couch to 5k' programme at our local running club – or rather, my other half told her about it, then talked to me about it in a 'if you did it with her, I think she would really like it' kind of way. This roughly translates as 'you're going to do this, and if you don't I will give you shit for quite some time about it'. A lot of my life kind of happens that way.
Here's the funny thing – I'm looking forward to going running again. In the year or two before the children arrived in our lives I would routinely go running a couple of times a week – about five miles each time. In the ten years since I stopped running I've put on perhaps 20 pounds in weight (let's blame it on pizza) – I could do with losing that extra baggage.
People automatically think that I should be ok at running because I cycle every day – but in reality running uses completely different muscles, so cycling ends up being oddly counter-productive.
Anywhere – there it is. Expect a blog post in the near future claiming I ran half a mile and nearly died.