How and why did you start running? [150 word challenge]

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swittle Oct 2019 11:19am, 1 Oct 2019 57,247 posts	0 swittle Great result, Neal
mulbs Oct 2019 11:30am, 1 Oct 2019 13,503 posts	0 mulbs Slowly and without any grace or style and mostly hating it, until I found my pace. A friend asked me to run a new race that was starting - the Liverpool Women's 10k. Couldn't even run half a mile without thinking I was going to die at first, but one day realised it didn't get any worse after the first 5 mins, and then actually started enjoying it. Still run slowly and with no grace or style!
Tux4me Dec 2019 11:22pm, 23 Dec 2019 2 posts	0 Tux4me I have absolutely no idea why. Sat down one day and out of the blue said to my wife "If I start now do you think I could run a marathon before I'm 60? (I'd just turned 58) - people 3 streets away probably heard her laughing! I'd done no excercise since leaving school. Found C25K, discovered Parkrun, pulled a calf muscle, rested, building up again now. I've surprised myself at how much I enjoy running.
ChrisHB Dec 2019 11:50pm, 23 Dec 2019 18,665 posts	0 ChrisHB 1) No, you can't do woodwork instead of rugby, you must do cross-country running. 2) At the age of 18, free from the constraints of school, I decided I was going to run always and thus be healthier than most of my contemporaries. Little did I know then that I was simply a small part of a change in fashion. 3) When running became really popular and you could get books about it from the library, or magazines, I discovered that it was possible to train and become better. 4) With Fetch came a friendly competitive element - the training league / how many miles you could get from a pair of trainers / assorted games - and I fell for it.