The essay "The Story of Me and Running" is required to be about 500 words!

Running is a kind of mood and a way of life.

This sentence became the slogan of BBS in my college days, which appropriately described the significance of running to me. Everyone's life will have some hobbies that are hard to give up, and there will be some irreplaceable things. Running is like this for me.

It's been three years since I started running, which is not a long time. But in the past three years, unless there are special reasons that are difficult to overcome, I have insisted on running almost every day. From this perspective, three years may not be too short. In the years of repeating running day after day, I never stopped thinking about the behavior itself except focusing on the time and distance of running every day. If a behavior persists for a long time until it is almost stubborn and you feel lost when you can't run, to some extent, this behavior may have a religious significance. For runners, running is like praying for Christians. At this moment, I want to engrave the results of my daily prayers in the form of running, and engrave my thoughts and feelings about running in the form of words.

Running is probably one of human nature. Humans are rare creatures who are good at long-distance running. Take the marathon as an example. As long as we exercise, most of us can conquer the marathon distance, but few animals in nature can run this distance. Running is the survival way of early human beings, and this ability of long-distance running plays a vital role in chasing prey and avoiding predators. In fact, running was written into our genes a long time ago. Even if running is no longer necessary for survival, it still belongs to human nature. In this regard, I still remember when I was a child in physical education class. At the moment when the teacher announced the dissolution, everyone cheered and ran away, fighting and chasing each other during the running. At that time, the mood was probably full of expectations for running, just looking forward to hearing the teacher's orders earlier and being liberated. Only with the growth of age, such a picture gradually disappeared. Or because of the busy work and life, or because of the pain of taking running as an examination item during study, or because running is boring, these have become reasons for not running anymore, and they are increasingly reluctant to take a step. However, in my heart, running is always a meaningful life experience. In my long running life, one day I suddenly realized that running is closely related to many excellent characteristics of human nature: hard work, determination, diligence and perseverance. At the same time, running evokes many beautiful feelings of the soul: happiness, calmness, romance and freedom.

This understanding comes from my own running experience and is closely related to the characteristics of running itself. Compared with other sports, one of the characteristics of running is to do whatever you want, and there is no special requirement for venues and equipment. As long as you have a set of sportswear and a pair of running shoes, you can do it anytime and anywhere. As for how fast you run, how long you run, when you start and when you finish, you can leave it to your feet and heart to decide. Running can also easily control the intensity of exercise, which is suitable for people with different physical qualities as a daily exercise program. No matter who has just made up his mind to start physical exercise or who keeps good exercise habits every day, he can reap the exercise effect he needs from running. Another feature of running is its outstanding effect. As an aerobic exercise, it has an excellent effect on improving heart and lung function, strengthening physical strength, exercising physique, slimming and other aspects that women are particularly concerned about. Personally, from the beginning of running, I can obviously feel the changes brought by running, both physically and psychologically. The effect of physical exercise is self-evident. In the days of running every day, physical strength is enhanced step by step, basically insulated from unprovoked ailments, and physical strength has also been improved. Running once at first will consume my energy all day. Now every time I finish running, I am full of energy, and I don't feel tired from running early to late. In addition to exercising, running can also relax the mind. In the hectic work and life every day, running is a very precious time to be alone. At the same time of ups and downs, my mood can be completely independent, and I can think about many problems that I usually don't have a chance to think quietly. Most of the words I write are the result of my thinking while running. This is really a wonderful contrast-while the body is struggling to exercise and sweat, the mind and mind can enjoy extraordinary peace. This is also one of the important reasons why I feel free to run, not only because my body moves freely according to my own wishes, but also because of the infinite possibilities of free thinking.

But running is not a pleasant enjoyment without burden after all. On the contrary, it often takes a very difficult journey to feel the beauty of running, a flower on the other side. The most difficult time to start a running lifestyle is at the beginning. I can still remember that after several years of extreme lack of exercise, one day I finally made up my mind to abandon that day and prepare to keep running every day. The first run was on the treadmill. It took me 30 minutes to run 5 kilometers on the first day, which was my original limit. After running, I just felt breathless and miserable, and then the muscle aches continued all day the next day. The next few runs are still the same, laborious and painful. Many times I find it really hard to persist, but with a stubborn drive and inner paranoia, I never give up. I think I should thank myself at that time, because I didn't flinch in the face of pain, so I could feel the charm of running later. After spending this time slowly, the discomfort during running and the fatigue after running are getting lighter and lighter until one day they disappear completely. When running changed from a burden to a habit, I was surprised to find that I longed for running from my heart, because only then did I realize the physical and inner pleasure brought by running. After that, I insisted on running for a long time, or I shouldn't call it persistence anymore, because running has become the same existence for me as eating and drinking at this time. If one day I can't run, I will feel very uncomfortable and unhappy. Running has become an inseparable part of my life: I want to keep running, run faster and run farther, and this idea keeps sprouting from my heart. This change was unexpected when I started running, but it was natural. When you insist on something that is not so easy to do, you will naturally feel happy for yourself. I fell in love with running, I fell in love with the breeze blowing during running, and I fell in love with the feeling of moving forward with my own feet-starting with running with my own feet, then falling in love with running, and finally enjoying the rich gifts brought by running.

For me now, the biggest obstacle to running is the surrounding environment: the air in Beijing is really hard for people to find any compliments. In order to avoid being poisoned by various harmful gases, I can only choose to exercise on the treadmill most of the time. But after all, I prefer running outdoors. The feeling of running in a wide world will never be felt on a narrow treadmill. Just littering everywhere, the high PM2.5 air and the gray sky can't help but disgust me. I can't change the harsh environment, and it's hard to influence other people's lifestyles, but at least I can start from myself, pay attention to and support environmental protection. Many environmental problems have been formed for more than ten years or even decades, and it is difficult to improve them quickly. But if everyone can start from himself, from now on, at least we can expect the environment to get better.