Why I Became A Runner
Looking back, I find it hard to believe that I had got as big as I had without realising it, in reality it probably snuck up on me as the only mirror in my flat is a little shaving mirror. As a child and teenager, I was always active and forever playing sport whether it was for local clubs, the school or the county. It didn't matter whether it was football, rugby, cricket, tennis or athletics I turned my hand to everything. My problems began when I went to university. In my first year I was still playing a bit of rugby and some 5 a side football but to nowhere near the same level of activity as previously. In the 5 years or so after finishing university I dipped in and out of playing rugby after I moved to Scotland but that quickly fell by the wayside. I knew I was overweight and needed to do something about it, although whatever it was be it attempts to watch what I ate or a very poor attempt at starting Couch 2 5K nothing worked. Looking back, I realise that I was severel...