I run to forget why I run

The other day I thought I should exercise. I think it was a thought in a moment of extreme vagueness of my little neuron, the only one that I kept from my childhood and that I once believed was working perfectly. I suppose the fact that the doctor insists on telling me that I have hypercholesterol and that I smoke must have influenced a bit but I am not entirely clear haha

For 3 days and after buying some Running shoes, (I clarify that now there are running shoes, paddle shoes, there are to walk, to play futsal, to play petanque and to throw them at a bastard who says to you while you run and with a great dose of fine irony: "Can you take me?" - adorned with a smile of ……) I have decided to practice that of “Mens sana in corpore sano”And I've started to break a sweat.

I do not know why I do it, in fact if memory serves me, the last time I ran something was 3 years ago in a football 7 game, where I ended up fused. If I search in memory, I honestly do not remember when was the last time I ran…. In the military?… .. It could be (he was 21 years old).

What if i am "Supinator or Pronator", the one from the store told me. And I thought that this only appeared in Leo Harlem's monologue about sports… The truth is that I told him… “I neither the one nor the other…. because either of the 2 things means an increase in the price of the shoes ”. Damn, with how well he ran before with some good "Paredes" shoes or whatever they were, since they were all good for running. Now nooooooooooo. Now running is a complicated story haha ​​...

Anyway, I have stiffness even in the neck, that my race pace es similar to a turtle with sciatica and when I reach the end of my journey…., it makes me think…. Why?

I think that by getting serious and transcendental and knowing that it is always good to say that: “ I am going to run”, I have thought that there are more reasons than health and the fact of putting my oxidized body in shape, I think and I have realized that in those minutes (because at the moment they are that, minutes), in those moments my thoughts are focused on the breath, in how tired I am, in the "cocoon" that thought about supinator and in a thousand other things, among which is thinking, when will I get home again to rest.

The conclusion that I have drawn is that during those moments, is that As I run, I don't think of anything bad, I don't think of a crisis, work, or problems. Deep down, I think I've gotten to run to escape my daily thoughts and repetitive thoughts which really they don't do me good, that is to say that really "I run to forget why I run", although now in these precise moments, I have remembered why I do it…. In the end, it is not so bad.

And now to wait and see how long my sporting experience lasts… Bets are allowed.
Louis Garrigues
P.D. This story was written on September 5, 2013. As of today, I can say that I have already run my first 15k and my goal is to finish the Half marathon October. The most important thing is I'm still alive !!! And now happy to have taken the step of buying those "sneakers".