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Published: 3/12/2021 4:10:46 PM
Besides basic life functions eating, sleeping, breathing running may be the only activity I’ve sustained for decades without any breaks.
This shocks me, partly because I don’t have a great track record for persistence, but mostly because everything about my childhood abilities indicated that I would spend the rest of my life sitting in dark rooms reading library books or watching seven hours of sitcom TV a day.
I was the proverbial last pick for every game ever invented involving physical skill; I never learned to swim, ski or skate. In junior high P.E., we were forced to run The Mile on Fridays, a recurring event that gave me actual nightmares: suffocation, pain and humiliation, against which death was nothing so much as a good way out.