 | winter_spirit (2)
09/05/2004 |  Running... the mere thought of it is painful. All I can think of is that aching feeling of passing out, a dry throat that gets cut with every dry breath of air you inhale, that stitch in your stomach with every step you take, the beads of sweat that pour from your hairline down your face that when you wipe away water that feels like the same scorching hot temperature as your body, the lactic acid in every muscle, the panic tearing in your heart as you end one lap and begin another... the dreaded obligatory mile we ran in school. Of course you wouldn't want to ask me about running, because after I ran that horrid mile I had a panic attack a few minutes later, so obviously the thought of running that miserable stretch under the enormous pressure of a stopwatch overcomes me with cold sweat, a heated flushed face, ghastly pale hands as my blood circulation almost halts and the vertigo of anxiety. When I think of running now, I think of that panic attack: the breathlessness, the anxiety that is tangible in each and every vein, that sharp pang of pain in my lungs and heart as they squeezed themselves for air, that feeling of forgetting everything except survival, that sensation of vivid fear so pure that the fear itself could have stopped my heart just makes me squirm with discomfort.
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 | numbah16tdhaha (161)
09/03/2004 | He he! Where to begin. My platoon decided to do some advanced training and split the platoon into three groups, the fast ones, the medium ones, and the slow ones. I ended up turning the third fastest three mile run time in my platoon on a bad knee, but they thought it would be fun to put me in charge of the medium group. Ha! I made those poor kids run until they puked, five days a week for two solid months and loved every minute of it. Does that make me sick? UPDATE:Would my troll care to come out and play? I've gotten ten comments marked unhelpful in the last two minutes and I know I have a troll blanketing me, so come out!
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 | PTRoxieMisha (3)
09/03/2004 | It makes my joints feel like sh!t, and I used to run but I stopped because I just can't let myself get injured. If I do, I would be forced to stop dancing and I can't have that.
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 | zuchinibut (43)
11/18/2003 | Running can get boring because it is so repetitive, but it does get you in shape, and feels great once you are done.
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