The run

I ran hard against the slopes along the usual running route. Took my time going down but maintaining an even pace on flat ground.
During the run, somehow my mind wondered, telling me this run I am doing now should be mirrored into life. Challenges, difficulties are the slopes and to get over it fast, you need to run at it hard. Eventually the uphill will end and I will have an easy way down...unless its a routine circuit in which the downhill will become an uphill come return.

The laboured breathing, the muscles ache I can manage but the real battle is the mind. The part of my mind that wants to run usually can keep the part that wants to walk at bay. I look forward to the endorphins rush when I accomplished a run further than the previous.

Its been more than 6 years since I started running regularly. I ran slightly more than when I first started, on my 3rd/4th pair of shoes but yet all the distance clocked, im still nowhere close to you. I must have been running on a treadmill.