grateful for running via /r/gratitude

Today I’m grateful for the ability to run. I’ve been a runner my whole life. Ran D2 cross country/ track. It’s been there for me in the throes of depression, kept me from going too far in manic episodes. It’s been the longest, best relationship I’ve had in 26 years.

And it hasn’t always been easy. But I’m so grateful that I have stayed consistent with it. I’m so grateful that I can go out and run 13.1 miles in a weekend with minimum training. I’m grateful for the women ahead of me who fought for their right to run (bc we only just passed the 50 year mark of women being allowed to register to run marathons.) I’m grateful for running allowing me to feel like myself again. I don’t know where I’d be without running, sometimes I question if I’d be here. It has saved me, loved me, made me cry, really just allowed me to experience every emotion in such a healthy way.