![]() While other sports require a certain level of skill, the benefits of running come early. It took years of quitting, then starting again, but eventually, I was running regularly, two miles, then three, then four. "The morning of the run, I wrote on my hand, 'The mile you’re on,'" writes Tova Mirvis. It doesn’t matter if you consider yourself a runner. It reminded me of something a writing teacher once told me: If you’re a writer, then you write. I didn’t have to be fast or particularly coordinated. But the first time I jogged/walked around Crystal Lake in Newton, I realized that there was no special skill to learn. The hardest part was traversing my certainty that I could never be a runner. But as I drove the kids to school, as I made little discernible progress on my book, I watched the runners along Commonwealth Avenue and felt a stirring. From years of never working out, I felt slow, plodding, weighted down with kids and a novel I was endlessly working on. ![]() Growing up, my family’s primary sport was reading. ![]() ![]() With two young kids in a stroller, I could no more imagine running 26.2 miles than I could envision flying. ![]() The first time I watched the Boston Marathon, the runners passing by my spot at the foot of Heartbreak Hill seemed superhuman, engaged in an otherworldly feat. Marathon runners race through the “scream tunnel” at Wellesley College in 2019. ![]()
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