Saturday's run

I had my morning run today. It was awesome: rising sun, morning light, empty streets and roads, and a disco music in my headphones.

I think I did not tell before that I used to run for about 8 years almost every morning until I got to a law school and started stressing out and complaining about lack of time.  I quited running but then decided to return and at the first day of my "coming back" I injured my knee.

For more than a year, I envied every runner I saw on a trail or side of a road.  I tried to get back a couple of times, but a sever pain in my knee was stronger than me.  But then overcoming my fear of knee pain, I went to a physical therapist and with help of several exercises and hours of training I returned back to my 35-minutes runs. Unfortunately, one day I tried to run during strong winds and a knee pain returned bringing back my fear of pain and uncertainty that I can run again. 

In last month I have realized that physical exercises mean a lot to me: they bring energy to my body and happiness to my life.  So I have decided that I need get back to my running routine because I feel it is important to me to be able to do it without fear of failure.  

Now I can run only 13 minutes on a trail and about 15 minutes on a tread mill in a gym.  Luckily, I do not have a knee pain, yet <knock on wood>.  But I hope to increase my time to at least 35 minutes. Who knows, maybe one day I will decide to run a marathon :-)))