I am laying on the ground, my heart pumping, my lungs
still burning, and my body completely numb and I realize it is only going to
get worse. It is only December 5th and I am already questioning why I put
myself through the torture of running in the winter. There are so many things
that make me despise winter running, but in the end I will probably end up
running all winter, because I want to get better (and in the past I didn't
really run in the winter and regretted it a lot when Track started).
I think almost every runner hates running in the cold.
It burns your lung and you have to wear what seems like 50 pounds of clothing
to not freeze to death. It sucks! Anyone who says they like to run in the
winter is either a) lying b) runs to the end of the driveway and back and
thinks they get an extra piece of cake for dinner, because they worked soooo hard
or c) THEY ARE CRAZY, so if you like running in the winter then I am sorry to
hurt your feelings, but your probably crazy. Although, I don’t think I have
ever ran in the snow, I think it would be extremely hard and dangerous and add
to why I don’t like to run in the cold. I do love to run and I would hate to
stop now, but it’s hard to love something when you are scared of freezing to
death because of it. Running in the cold isn’t fun, but you have to gear up,
get out there, and try to forget about how bad you feel, because you will
regret not running in the winter when spring comes and you’re completely out of
shape.
I also don’t like to run in the winter, because it is
in the school year and it seems like you always have some kind of excuse to not
run. In the cross Country and Track season, when you have a big test or you’re
really busy that night you go to practice anyway, because you are dedicated to
the team, but in the winter when you have a test or your busy you just don’t run,
because it’s the offseason and you don’t make your coach mad when you miss one
day of running in the winter. Unfortunately, some people miss a lot of days and
it seems like I am almost always running by myself or with people who aren’t my
speed.
It is also hard to run in the winter, because the
holidays are coming and you feel like you have better things to do. You have to
go see your family, bake cookies, set up the Christmas tree, and so much more
that running ends up being pushed back on the to-do list that it is hard to get
to it. By the time you get through everything and you have time to run its dark
out (daylight savings= another thing bad about winter running) and you are
exhausted. Almost everyone is extremely busy during the holiday season and that
just makes running so much harder.
There are a lot of things that make running in the winter
really hard. The cold making it hard to breath and forcing you to wear a thousand
layers of clothes, school and other things that make it hard for people to run every
day, and the Holidays, where you are too busy to even consider running until it’s
too late, all make it hard to run in the winter. No matter how hard it is to
get yourself out there and run, it is so important that there is no way you
will regret it when Track starts.
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