This section is adapted from No Need For Speed - A Beginner's Guide To The Joy Of Running, by John Bingham. Buy this book!You may be uncomfortable hearing that no one can tell you what your fitness goals should be. No one can tell you how much

This section is adapted from No Need For Speed - A Beginner's Guide To The Joy Of Running, by John Bingham. Buy this book!Many adult-onset athletes believe that living an active lifestyle would be easier if they could trade the body they have

.But – I’m not a competitor to be taken lightly. So consider yourself warned. The gauntlet is thrown down. That heavy breathing you hear behind you could be me. Those pounding footsteps could be mine. And if they are, you’re in for the race of your life. Unless I’m in the Firebird

.But – I’m not a competitor to be taken lightly. So consider yourself warned. The gauntlet is thrown down. That heavy breathing you hear behind you could be me. Those pounding footsteps could be mine. And if they are, you’re in for the race of your life. Unless I’m in the Firebird

and, more importantly, the relationship. With shocking clarity I spoke the words that would become my signature on the covenant. And, once again, running had become the means by which we were defining our life together.So I ran. I would like to say

difference to someone’s life.Waddle on, friends.

to accept the idea that the rest of my life would have to change. I wasn’t ready to start thinking like an athlete. I wasn’t ready to be a runner when I wasn’t running. I was not going to become one of those people.Not me! I was going to be the one who