i love you coz you are a pillar of strength for me - and although we may not grow individually as fast as we did before we got married, we grow together and make a very strong team supporting each other. sometimes, you need to ease the preasure of constantly developing yourself. You still strive to be successful in everything you do, but its nice to share this burdon with someone and succeed as a team. Having high expectations of yourself all the time can be very exhausting and can lead you into dark dark places that you may sometimes not find a way out of, but im glad that CAF is there to pull me out of deep dark places when i get lost. Some have different points of views, but i think its about how much load you can, want to and ought to carry..  

 

i love you CAF and will cherish you till death do us part.

 

What Is Running?
 
What a silly question one might say - "its the simple motion of placing one foot in front of another at an accelerated pace." my father wld say... But sometimes one does need to ask oneself this question, especially when you wake up religiously at 6am to spend those 30-60min on the road before the sun goes up (or down..). Why do I run and what is Running to me?
 
To many ppl it means different things. To your neighbour across the street it might mean his or her daily (or weekly) 30min destress and quiet time away from work and the house. To your average teenager it might be the only way she knows to get a slim figure and sexy legs. To your average guy it might be the way to show his frens that he is the fastest man around. And to some, it might even be the way to spend a quiet 30min with the one u love. It cld be an excuse to sneak around the corner to meet your boy or girlfriend, or even a safety line thrown to you to get your life back on track. Whatever it is, its by no means unique.
 
A friend once told me - to me running is about freedom and I will never stop doing it. i couldnt really understand that as when i think about running, the words 'fast' and 'speed' come to mind. So I thought id see what others think bout Running and googled it.
 
Wikipedia defines running as the following:
 
"Running is defined as the fastest means for an animal to move on foot.[citation needed] [...]"
 
As you scroll down further on the page, you see there are different kinds of running - Trail Running, Track Running, Fell Running etc... (Thats Moutain Running btw..) - and under the "See Also" section they have related topics such as Olympics, Triathlon and this thing called Persistance Hunting. Interesting I thought and clicked through.
 
Persistence hunting is a type of hunting where the predator uses a combination of running and tracking to pursue the prey to exhaustion. [...] Persistence hunting requires endurance running - running many miles for extended periods of time. Among primates endurance running is only seen in humans and is thought to have evolved 2 million years ago."

So what is running really? Is it a 'I'm better than you" Challenge or is it a simple daily 30minutes of peace and quiet before the sun goes up (or down).

Each to his own i suppose, but to me, it is a life saver which pulled me out of the pits of low self-esteem and gave me back my confidence. It shed away excess baggage and helped me turn over a new leaf. It is something that opened a new door of opportunities in life, brought my life partner and also many friends. It helped me bring competitive sport back into my life and allowed me to dream big again. I run because I want to remember the good things it did for me and how it put my life back together.

The words 'fast' and 'speed' still come to mind, but hey... thats how we define running =)  [see above]
What is Running to you?

 

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Footnote - all red highlighted parts are taken from www.wikipedia.com