- Running is hard, especially when you first start out. You’re going to get huffed and puffed before you see the results you want.
- Running will keep your heart healthy. You’ll reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease, decrease your chances of developing diabetes, high cholesterol and other diseases.
- Running will tone your body and leave you looking lean. It won’t happen over night but it will happen. You’ll start as a slow flabby rounded person and then one day you’ll wake up and your legs will be toned, your midsection visible and you might even fit into those old pair of jeans that you’ve kept hidden in the back of your closet for that ‘some day’.
- Running is an opportunity to be with yourself. It will help you clear your head and put things in perspective. It gives you a chance to think about the more important things along with the more mundane.
- Running can result in expanding your social circle. Each year more runners line up at the starting lines of races. More people chuck on their shoes, do up their laces and explore their local parks, neighbourhoods, and beaches.
- Running will change your life. Once you become a runner it’s difficult to go back to being a non runner. A good day is defined by a run, a shitty day is one where you don’t have time to pound the pavement.
- Running means getting up before every body else. You will want to fit in your run before the world wakes up and throws excuses of why not to run. It will mean saying no to Saturday night vodka shots because you’ve got a race or a training run Sunday morning. You will call 7am a sleep in.
- Running can be addictive. Once you get started, develop a routine, sign up for a few races, you’ll want to run more and more. The 5km won’t be enough, you’ll soon be moving up in the ranks and running a 10km race, then a half marathon, and marathon. You might even be crazy enough to sign up for the ultra.
Do you know of any other reasons why NOT to run?
