Once a runner,always a runner
I'm listening to Editors' "Smokers outside the hospital doors" ,a song I used to run on during those 10 years while I was running. After a talk today ,doing the maths I realized there are 3 years since I hadn't run, like more than 1000 days. For most of the people around me it means nothing,for me it's a high price I had to pay for something that wasn't my fault. The last time I ran I had both the ACL and meniscus broken after the accident,had no idea of that,run with that pain for 5 months and kept training at the gym. Why? Because pain is nothing new when you run,you train to overcome the pain,to go further,to reach that point of runners' high,which is very real. And during the years, running had thought me so many things that kept me going long after I wasn't able to run. Because of running I did the 3 months pre-surgery physical therapy and 9 months after the surgeries, because I thought there was even a little chance to run. But it...