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HOW Nike+
GAVE ME MY SECOND WIND
I’ve always thought distance runners
a.m. and run “an easy 10.” In Maine... former teammates to their endless
were at least slightly insane.
in the winter. They enjoy this. I do not. miles and me to my lazy - but happy
I say this from personal experience,
I always liked to play a bit of basketball. - Sunday afternoons.
for I once aspired to be one. In high
They didn’t. You see? They are insane. Oddly enough, six years later,
school, I placed 10th in the state of
The runner’s lifestyle got old quickly I decided to pick up running again.
Rhode Island in the 1,500 meters.
too. As December turned to January I wanted to battle my noticeably slowing
Sure, it’s the smallest of America’s 50
and we die-hard runners shared a metabolism, and truth be told, I even
states, but this minor triumph led me
snow-clogged lane with speeding cars missed the competition. As my college
to believe that I could keep up with the
as the sun disappeared at 4:30 pm, I years faded into the distance, I found
track team at my New England liberal
realized I’d had enough. I enjoyed the opportunities to challenge myself
arts college. With college-level training,
competition of the meets but not the athletically replaced by jobs
I figured I could stick with the running
near death experiences guaranteed and girlfriends and all the other stuff
athletes and improve.
with every practice. In any case, the hat takes life over when you grow up.
Physically, I’d like to think I had what
basketball court was much closer to my The difficulty was finding a way to
it takes, but my mental make-up was a
dorm then the track locker room. When run and enjoy it without becoming one
different story. Real runners party until
I returned for second semester, the of those cute people who trots around
3 a.m. on a Saturday night, get up at 8
team and I went our separate ways: my the Park on the weekend or
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