Why start running indeed, when most modern cities have perfectly good cab services?
If the only purpose of running was to get from A to B merely a little bit quicker than you would if you'd walked, a bus would probably serve you better. Equally, there'll be those people who'll argue that the purpose of running, as a sport, is exactly that - to get from A to B quicker than anybody else. But to hold either of those views would be to miss the point of why so many millions of us all over the world spend several hours a week running. Often, quite literally, round in circles.
The question to ask really should be "Why not run?" And if anybody has a good answer to that I've yet to hear it.
Running is one of the simplest, most straightforward and all round effective forms of physical exercise you can take. Pretty much anybody can get into it, as you can start off at your own pace then improve at a rate that suits nobody other than yourself. You don't need a great deal of flashy or expensive running gear either, just a pair of running shoes and a pair of shorts, although a shirt would be useful. More or less everybody has somewhere to go running; you can do it in a group; or, if you don't want to wait for others, do it by yourself. Plus there aren't any opening hours or membership fees involved.
So there aren't too many excuses not to run that will hold a great deal of water. But if you still need convincing, even in this day and age in which one in four of us is obese and adult onset diabetes is at an all time high, consider this: you wont get hangovers any more. Or if you do, they won't be so dreadful. This is because there'll be far less "bad stuff" floating about in your newly healthy system to start off with; then a runner's highly efficient metabolism quickly gets rid off all those hangover inducing toxins that will be left behind by a night on the lash.
Plus you'll have been paying much more attention to your hydration during the day - drinking loads of water will have become a habit - so you'll have started off protected against the booze's diuretic side effect, and so sidestep that morning-after thirst.
Yet we're still kind of missing a trick. The biggest trick of all, as well. Running - round the streets, on the beach or through a forest - is one of the most liberating experiences there is. Beyond even the many physical benefits of running, the rush of exhilaration as you charge down a hill or try to beat a bus to the next stop is enough to put a great big grin on even the grumpiest of faces.
As well as the "runner's high" of an endorphin rush that could flatten a charging rhino, there's an almost cathartic effect in just you running like a train and coming out triumphant over whatever course or distance or timing you pit yourself against. Go for a good run in the evening and it's as if you sweat out all that day's frustrations and niggles.
Also, in today's hi-tech, handheld, downloadable world there's something satisfyingly pure about succeeding on your own physical merits. When you run, the amount of advantage you can buy
polo hats, in terms of what you wear or carry, will be so negligible as to make no difference at all. As I said earlier, just running shoes and shorts and you can get started, then it's you against yourself and the elements, which is about the best way there is for testing what you're really made of.
Would 130,000 people really have applied for 35,000 places in last year's London Marathon, signing up for six months of grueling training and the "joy" of slogging 26.2 miles around the UK capital's streets, if running wasn't all that?
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While shopping in a particular store or shop, look around. Are the other patrons dramatically younger than you? Are the associates still in high school?