One desired to run, therefore one did run: An athletic epiphany

One frequently has epiphanies, but those of the intellectual sort. Not very often do the gods think its appropriate to endow one with an athletic epiphany, but one happened to me today.

As you may know, I have been injured for the last six weeks. One could believe that being hit by a car is a car ending injury. But not in my case! For every setback, there is two steps forward to be taken. I have not been able to ride my bike since my accident (maybe not for physical reasons, but certainly for psychological ones), however I felt game enough today to go for a run.

Some background: I have not run seriously for more than six years. I have focused all my energies on cycling and skating, and my biomechanics had developed in that way. Before my accident, I would run and start wheezing after about 200m  because my body was not properly trained for running. 

However, today, having not done any exercise for several weeks, when one desired to run, one did run, and one ran very well.

I set out from my house to the Carlton Gardens (1km return), then decided to head to parliament, then around the Fitzroy garden and back home through Brunswick street. This is certainly the longest distance I have run since moving back to Australia, and never has running come with such ease. I felt free, particularly after the constraints of injury, surgery and recovery.  

That being said, I shall train for an ironman - one must just get over the swimming part first. 

--- Aron Ping D'Souza