I’ve always known, psychologically, that running with someone else is better than running by yourself. Admittedly, the solitude of running is one of the great things about it – few other sports offer you the freedom of being able to choose your own path, your own pace, your own journey. It’s also great thinking time. But at the end of the day, running by yourself consistently, day after day after day, is hard. Even those with Herculean motivation will find it hard to keep going.
At the Nike Training Blog they have an article this week with the simple tip: Run With Others. It’s so simple yet fit what I’m trying to do with this blog so well that I thought it would be a perfect place to start.
I won’t spend too much time on my background or my plans for this blog in this post. For that, you can check the About page, or keep coming back as the story here at Running Buddy unfolds. But I’ve been on a mission since the beginning of this year to get myself back to the running shape that I once had when I ran a 15:59 5K.
The mission hasn’t gone exactly as planned – I started out well, then suffered the first serious injury of my nearly 20-year running career in April, at age 29. I tore my MCL, then made the all-too-common mistake of running again before I was completely healed, and increased the severity of said injury.
Eight months later, I’m still in physical therapy, and because this journey has not been easy, I thought, why keep on running by myself? So welcome, and I hope you come back soon.
Photo by liquene.
