Why I am addicted to running?

It's 5 am in the morning, my mobile alarms rings. I get up from my bed, dismisses the alarm and put a new alarm at 5:10 am and gets back to bed. At 5:10 am, the alarm rings again. I get up and dismisses it again. Drinks the water from the bottle lying at the table. Put on my running track pant, my regular running T shirt, put my socks, put my mobile phone in my pocket with ear phone in my ears and I go down the stairs. Put my Nike running shoe. Now you know what I am up to. This is how most of my day at Kokrajhar begins.

Before I start running, I warm up by streatching by legs, arms and shoulders. Then I put on my running app and start running. I make sure that whenever I am running, I have my ear phone with me. Listening to music while running keeps me motivated. Generally I like listening to soft melody songs rather than rock songs while running. Yea there are also days when I forget my ear phone in my room. Those days can be tough to keep yourself motivated...

At Kokrajhar, most of the time the roads are empty early at the morning. This leaves me running solo. The first few kilometres is never easy when you are running long distance. Many times you feel like stoping and going back home. But after you have cross that threshold mark, you start tasting the sweet of long distance running.

Whenever I run alone, lot of things come across my mind. I tend to think a lot about life. Not just about my life. But life in general. Some I think about what my life would had been if I were a Superman. How I would have manage my life as Superman. Sometimes I even wonder what if I would have been an actor. What sort of role I would have played. All these random thoughts do come across my running mind...

There are times when after running the distance, you feel your legs are gone and you can't go any further. But you won't stop just because your mind says you can finish the race.Then, it becomes the battle between the mind and the body where at the end your mind wins. Atleast till now. The satisfaction that one feels after completing the distance is something that only a runner can understand. That's the reason why it is said that running can be an addiction.

There are also times when you will find rain falling down heavily over your head. Running in the rain is totally a different experience. I remember during my final days at IITG, I use to run in the rain. Infact it was raining when I ran for the last time at IITG.

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional" -  Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

I guess I have written enough on running...

Have a great day ahead...