Not so long ago I have started running, not so much at first just to check whether my everyday habit of biking around the city made me as fit as I had thought. Beginnings were difficult but with time a body gets used to the new physical activities and now I feel I need it to stay fit. I makes a person who normally conducts more sedentary lifestyle, like me, more conscious of her body and just quick-witted and easier to mobilise. Not mentioning wonderful people you meet when participating in multiplicity of events around the city. Even with time limits, I must stick to because of the work overload and family duties which hinder my engagement in more events and races, it still helps relax and just lowers stress to the acceptable levels. Being single and hard working mum this is kind of crucial, even more than having everything done with tip-top perfection.

While continuing this habit I have noticed how much does it improve my performance. It is now very easy to mobilise, I am rarely cold and not catching flew as easily as before. There are many people passionate about this sport, some of them involved much more than myself, and it is hard for me to not share their passion. What is finally the life about? Is it not just about doing what is right and being happy with it? Running is such an easy habit to increase satisfaction and it does not require any special arrangements. Instead of staying inside and worrying, watching TV, following politics, etc, and constantly making myself work as in my case, you go out and spend an hour moving your body and having pleasure out of it. What’s more the consequences are nothing but beneficial.

Some may think that physical health is not as important as intellectual development. In general there are many people who submerged in contemporary culture, with all its benefits and facilities, stopped exercising at all. They are carried or transported without engaging their muscles, they stay sitting, they watch, sometimes read and write, often work too much. Not even mentioning the image of a popular couch potato, for many exercising and doing some sports seem just a simple waste of time. This global culture, which has brought us technological innovations devoid of diversity and so much similar everywhere, has not envisaged negative consequences of some behaviours. There are so many depressions around, people are unhappy, they concentrate on their own value and on themselves so much. The contemporary tools, wonderful as they are, cannot satisfy all our needs. We must care about it for ourselves.

For me running is also another occasion to see sights. In my very short running adventure I have already visited parks in Amsterdam, I run with friends of mine in Vienna’s Ring Strasse and Old Town, which was just great, and I was running around Vatican Hill. I also looked around courtyards and pathways of South Boston. Apart of weekly running in Lodz, I practiced in Hel Peninsula, running at the beach early in the morning is just wonderful, and I run in Krakow’s Planty. Truly wonderful experience all of these runs were, confirms that taking your sport shoes with you when going somewhere makes you see more and in a pace you may easily adjust. Give it a try and you will see yourself.

Bieg pod Gwiazdami/Run under the Stars, 2.01.2016, wonderful running event in Piotrkowska Street in Lodz, source Gazeta.pl