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That final sentence caught my attention. I tried to make a daily habit of jogging. I really tried. I held on to the habit for more than two years before finally

• olyjohn 7y ago
  I share that experience with you. I always hated running. Even made myself do it for months on end. Nothing made it feel good. Always just sore and tired. I definitely made gains in my ability to run farther without stopping. It never gave me that good feeling that people always talk about. It was always just suffer and put one foot in front of the other for the first 15 minutes, then you get the "runners high." That part wasn't all that amazing either. I see how you get in the zone, and it gets easier to keep going, but it's still not enjoyable at all for me.
• baud147258 7y ago
  Well, I didn't even tried to do a daily jog, closer to a weekly one. I had to prepare for a short (5 km) foot race, with some elevation (200 m) with my uncle, which I was doing mostly on a dare, when I hadn't run in a few years. I've never done a lot of sport either (a little bike riding and rock climbing, currently). So started doing some weekly job on a short distances (4-7 km) on a nice run (île au cygnes + banks of the Seine) and it just felt good, whereas the last times I felt pretty terrible. Perhaps because those times I didn't push myself too hard or unlike the previous times, stretched afterward. I don't know. And I finished just behind my uncle, less than a minute after him, I was a little disappointed, but still happy to have made a good time (~ 30 min, if I remember right).