What I mean when I say running

The moment Dača invited me to work out I was 45 years old and in a shape of an average engineer who sits all day long. In other words I was in no shape at all.
After a year of working out, I was still suffering from sore muscles after every session, but I found it easier to work out and I can do most of the things done by others. I remember the beginning when I looked at others as if they were supermen running around the forest while I could barely keep up with them and after ten minutes I would stick my tongue out to the ground, while those lunatics would run for hours and use the time to discuss some ideas of Dostoevsky.

On the one hand, the difference between running over a short distance and other sports and running a marathon, on the other, equals the difference between reality show and reality, between Tarantino and Tarkovsky – theirs forms are similar but they are essentially totally different. Running a marathon cannot be motivated by the wish to be better than another person and if the runner doesn’t outgrow this wish they quickly lose motivation for running, the same as a man who lives his life comparing to others inevitably loses motivation for living and falls into depression. While running over a short distance a runner considers everyone a danger and while running a marathon they see everyone as a partner, and as the trainer says, they don’t look around to see if somebody is outrunning them but rather if they need to help somebody. Running a marathon makes a person at peace with themselves, and only such a person can be at peace with other people. That is why each marathon is a holiday for participants.
While running over long distance you have the time to be with yourself. That’s the time you don’t have in this multitasking, show business, reality container. You may talk to yourself, you may argue with yourself, you may wrestle or you may even make an agreement… if you love watching films, you may learn to objectively watch various episodes from your life… if you need help while running, you will realize that you are your biggest saboteur and helper at the same time… while running you may realize that you can’t run, but that is another issue… if you want, you may be silent, as a writer once said ‘it’s easy to find an interlocutor, what’s difficult is to find someone to be silent with’.

The best thing that happened to me is the fact that my kids started going to these UTC workouts, some do it regularly, some a bit less. There I have enough time to be their parent and among other things it means that my kids see me react in certain situations, how I fight with myself, how I endure, how I slip, how I stumble and fall, how I get up…This offers me important life lessons, about ups and downs, about going uphill and going downhill, about getting ready for going uphill and not getting too relaxed while going downhill… and about paying special attention while going downhill because a person may slip a lot more easily than while going uphill… and how important it is who you are running with because somebody will lend you their hand in a crisis while somebody will let you fail… and about how important it is how you run, how you maintain your pulse, drink fluid, breathe… but before you determine ‘how’, you have to know ‘why’ you run, but nobody can tell you that, you have to do it yourself.
Trainer is right when he says that the point of these workouts isn’t to become a professional sportsman but to become and stay better… in whatever one wishes. Better student, better economist, better parent, better person…
As far as I am concerned, races where I participated aren’t worth mentioning. I consider that being a proud member of this community is my biggest success and I’m still working out. And I hope to be as successful in the future.

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