Why I love running

Running is something I've always been doing and probably will always do (ok, lets exclude the both ends of life where it's likely  to be impossible). For me it's like the most right feeling ever. I love how first your heart starts bumping faster and your whole body gets warm. Once warmed up it's almost ridiculously cool to run faster and slower and uphill and downhill. Running makes me do things I'd usually never do. It makes the things that are usually considered inappropriate suddenly seem perfectly fine. For example when walking down the street with my friends I'd never jump into a bush just because I can. But when running, if I just get this idea ' oh such a cool forest, I wanna run there', I can just turn off the road and run in the middle of nothing, jumping over branches, rocks, fallen trees, run as fast as you can, just jog and watch the nature find a small river and run through it, because you're all hot and dirty and enjoying it anyway and as I said inappropriate things are suddenly fine so people wont look at you weird if your dirty when you have your running clothes on.
With practising sports in general it's like, in my opinion, it lets you free, its like being a kid again..you can use your creativity and do whatever comes to your head, jump onto/off/over random things, do (or attempt) chin-ups on branches of trees, standing on something completely random and unbalanced doing a squat, falling on your ass and just laughing cause its so dumb and you really wanna do it again..ooh it's amazing :).
I think gyms are just playgrounds adjusted for grown-ups = made 'appropriate'= boring and without colors and random things just so you for God sake wouldn't have to think or use your creativity. But it is so cool to do it. And for me, for example, there is no problem I couldn't 'run away' from. The thing with running and working out and trying different things is, that a body can often do what you wouldn't expect from it. People, at least in Europe, are so used to thinking less of themselves than they actually are. But then you do something, for example run, and get so surprised how ell your body can keep on running for example 10 minutes. And then suddenly for 20. And 60. And out of nowhere the distance that took you 30 minutes to run, only takes 22 and you see how nice and cool your body is, you yourself are. And realize that all this (in lack of a better word) shit around you is just a passing thing and it's nothing you couldn't handle, because you now know that your body and your self are just fine and keep getting better and better :).
Being friends with yourself and your body, I hope, (I believe it's probably scientifically proved as well as it makes such sense), makes people not to see their body as an ugly enemy and not to treat it with a'la 'starve now body, you're fat and ugly, you don't deserve food' - type weightloss things nor stuffing it with all kinds of fatty and sugary and salty (or just 'any kind') of food just because you can. I think feeling good about yourself makes you wanna do good for your self and just provide the best - the most beneficial things.

..and getting them good things makes you feel great and run faster :P. So it's like a dead circle but an alive one. A very very alive one. That is why I love running.
Plus you can always turn it into a social activity and run together with all the people you like. Or away from the ones you don't, for that matter :D. But it is a nice way to spend time with you're loved ones - including yourself.

I do miss mom and horses too. Already forever . So: "Me and my mom after finishing a marathon ":) :

All the best, 

Kirsi