Musings from the Injury Bench: Why we run
People start running for all sorts of reasons. I don't think mine were typical. There was no great desire to lose weight or even improve my fitness. I had been through a bit of a life crisis though, a parting of ways with a friend of many years, something which was sudden, painful and impacted negatively on my self-esteem. But I pride myself on being adaptable and strongly believe that sometimes the best way to adapt to one kind of change in your life is to make others. So I decided to run. I had always been a bit in awe of people who ran. A few years back I had taken part in a Race for Life with a friend. It had never occurred to us to do anything other than walk the whole thing, so we did. But I remember looking at the runners with envy and thinking, "Wouldn't it be great to be running it?" Back then I didn't give a thought to such things as finishing times and personal bests because those terms were meaningless to me. Just...