{"id":1028,"date":"2010-03-24T19:04:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T02:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:15:50","slug":"confessions-of-a-running-addict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/2010\/03\/24\/confessions-of-a-running-addict\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a Running Addict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably don&#8217;t notice, but as a highly successful <a title=\"Team Beachbody Coach Richard Dafter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teambeachbody.com\/howtobefit\">Team Beachbody Coach<\/a>, I only infrequently post or tweet about the <a title=\"Team Beachbody workout DVDs\" href=\"http:\/\/teambeachbody.com\/shop\/-\/shopping\/?referringRepId=1393\">Team Beachbody workout<\/a> that I just did. \u00a0 Well, that isn&#8217;t because I don&#8217;t love all of the programs that I have tried or want to be able to bask in the glow of finishing another round of <a title=\"P90X\" href=\"http:\/\/teambeachbody.com\/shop\/-\/shopping\/P90X?referringRepId=1393\">P90X<\/a>. \u00a0 It is purely and simply because I am a running addict<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howtobefit.com\/pics\/confessions-blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"286\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning in September 1966, I have run almost continuously since, running over 60,000 miles on roads, trails and the track. \u00a0 There were a few years when I played soccer with a Princeton youth group, five years in Colombia and Guatemala when I played mostly soccer and the entire month of December last year when I had the swine flu and could only walk. \u00a0 Other than that, though, <a title=\"Running Addict\" href=\"http:\/\/www.howtobefit.com\/about-us.htm#my-story\">my identity has revolved around running<\/a>. \u00a0 I could and did run virtually any time and under any conditions.<\/p>\n<p>But something much more important will change all that next week as once again I become a full time single Dad. \u00a0 With Grace and Carly sound asleep in their beds at 6:00 am when I always work out, there will be no way that I can just go out the door as I have been able to do. \u00a0 I actually posted in my comments this morning when I logged into WOWY that, &#8220;Sometimes circumstances dictate  the change that you need to make. 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