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And here I am, a couch potato that can barely jog for over 90 seconds before feeling like i'm going to die.
The humans running down animals for hours also feel like that after a bit fyi. They are just hungry enough to keep running.
I have some friends who are into serious long distance running and they are constantly in a state of suffering while running. It's the feeling of stopping running that makes them keep wanting to go running, not the feeling of the actual running.
I'm a distance runner, and I don't know if you've captured running all that well tbh. I certainly don't go out for my Sunday long run looking forward to the finish. It's pretty enjoyable when you're training, but I concede that racing is difficult and can turn into prolonged suffering.
That's not true though. I used to run long distance all the time because I enjoyed running. It was really meditatitive. Plus if you run long enough you get a runners high, which is exactly what it sounds like.
That's purely endorphin addiction, in the 80's I had (for a short time till he got re-homed) a boss that was a true asshole motherfucking sonofabitch if he didn't get his 6 miles in before he headed to work.
And yes, that IS how I got him ~~fired~~ removed, an emergency meeting between my department (which had to include him, the department head) over a virus infection (mid 1980s mind you) got him to be said "asshole motherfucking sonofabitch" to the C** people in the meeting.
The fact that he had been "promoted" from head of QC to head of a 1980's IT department and had once said in front of the entire department that he wanted to throw every PC in the company into the company pond had "nothing" to do with it. >
Yet if you were to start walking today, and kept walking every day, in 6 months you'll be able to jog half a mile, or a kilometer. There are literally humans out there that have gone from 600+ lbs, or about 275 Kg, to running and completing their first marathon in just over 18 months. That's dangerously fast by the way.
Your body wants to move and stretch that's why stretching feels so good. Master Sin Thé taught his Shaolin classes that if you get a good workout going as a youth, and you keep making it harder so you keep growing, that will keep you young and in shape till you are around 80, and will slow the decline of age after it finally starts.
Our endurance isn't just for running. We are also one of the longest lived species on the planet, and we are about to use medical tech to become the longest living animals, I doubt we will be beating trees, sponges, and jellyfish for age any time soon
Edited to add: it's pronounced like Sin Tay
And as hard as it seems right now if you really wanted to you could train and build your endurance up to successfully run a marathon.
It's literally and actually IN your DNA to be able to do so.