Runner’s high
February 29, 2008 – 9:52 pmA number of years ago, I signed up and started training for the Avon 3 Day Breast Cancer walk. Just like the title says - it’s three days of walking, twenty miles a day. 60 miles in a weekend. The walk was the weekend of July 12th, 13th and 14th, 2002 and I am so proud to say that I completed the walk. It was without a doubt, one of the proudest moments of my life. For me to sign up, train for and complete that walk, well it was one of the few things I have completed without a guided, outlined "this is how to get it done" booklet.
While training, I went to a store in Palo Alto called ‘The Runner’s High’ and purchased my first pair of Nu Balance cross trainers. See, I supinate when I walk and it was causing discomfort in my knee. But the salesguy at the store had me walk up and down this hallway, barefoot, as he examined my walk and was able to properly fit me with the kind of shoe that would counteract my non-rolling feet.
I love the term "the runner’s high" - that buzz you get when you are exerting energy, pushing through a rough patch to the next smooth coast. But of course, I am not a runner and "the walker’s high" doesn’t quite have the same ring to it. So I did it tonight. I ran. Not for long. Not even for the entirety of a sing song on my iPod. But Pink’s ‘U + Ur Hand’ came on and there is something about the chorus of that song that makes me want to run. So I did.
I have passed the threshold of having to work out to wanting to work out this week and I have to tell you, it feels so good. But it also feels great to see results every morning on the scale.
We’ll have to see if I’ll be able to finish out the song by the end of next week.
