My Running Path
My 11-year-old has been going to taekwondo twice a week since the year he started kindergarten. Classes are held in a fitness center; every time I drop him off, I long to be one of those exercisey people I see at the gym. In six years I have not made it happen. I started yoga at home last year after “discovering” Yoga with Adriene but couldn’t make it a habit, even though Adriene is adorable and I love her. Because of my lifelong struggle to make an exercise regimen stick, every few years I get amnesia and think “I should try running again! I probably didn’t give it a fair shake last time.” The last time, I tried Couch to 5K and failed. I concluded that some bodies are just not meant to run. For me the problem is the lungs. I truly feel they’re going to explode. In late August, as the boys’ summer break came to a close, I reluctantly googled “Couch to 5K” (thinking I should try again) and got an unexpected hit: None To Run , a program gentler and more gr