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I’ve recently decided to take up running.  I’ve never ran for the sake of running.  I’ve ran for my high school lacrosse and rugby teams, but that’s about it.  I never even did much running outside of practice.  Why this sudden emergence into the world of running?  Well you see, I realize that my metabolism isn’t going to stay this fast forever, so I figure I need to do some sort of regular exercise in order to stay in shape.  I figure my main choices are running, cycling, and swimming.  Swimming’s out, because I’m a terrible swimmer, I’ve never been able to do more than I needed to for my swimming merit badge.  Cycling I love as a means of transportation, but have never been able to get into it as a sport, plus you just have to ride forever to get a workout, and I don’t have that kind of time or patience, not to mention it requires mondo expensive equipment.  I’ve always kind of hated running, but it really meshes well with my life philosophy, I like to live outside of the influence of the machine a lot of times, I love doing stuff with just my own two hands, building stuff myself, hiking in wilderness areas rather than in paved over national parks, blacksmithing, tinsmithing, hand-sewing, etc..  On top of all of that, I love that we’re the most efficient runners on the planet.  We’re not the fastest, true, but we can run longer than anything else, including a Kudu, models of running efficiency.  So despite my not liking it, I choose to run.

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