Contemplation & Reflection
Someone asked me yesterday "What made you become a serious runner?" It made me reflect and contemplate why in fact I had become a serious runner. I can honestly say I had not thought about it before. I have spent a lot of time reflecting on what made me change my lifestyle, but never what made me take up and fall in love with running, and what keeps me doing it. My answer was this: "I was crazy overweight, decided to lose it and started running. Then I fell in love with how running challenges and makes me feel. And now it keeps the weight off and continues to challenge me." After answering that, it made me also think of all the ways running has changed my life. It has helped me make some of the truest, most amazing relationships and friendships that I have ever had, some of those even inadvertently (not through running, but through friends I met through running). How cool, right? Meeting kindred souls is the best! It has introduced me to the most inspiring, kind,...