Recreational running. I could metformin hcl 850 mg side effects never see the point of it. Why on Earth would someone want to run, just to run?!

Now, running to catch a Frisbee, running in a soccer game, running to get away from someone — these I understood. But running for…running?

Seven weeks ago, I made a spontaneous and out-of-character decision to start a nine-week running program called Couch to 5k. I don’t know what possessed me.

Perhaps it was the fact that many of my friends were, or were becoming, avid runners, or that my sister kept triumphantly boasting about successful 10-plus mile runs on Facebook.

Whatever the reason, I had resolved that it was time for me to overcome my distaste for running, and over the past seven weeks something miraculous has happened. I have become a runner. Adam still can’t believe it.

I actually look forward to our run days. I enjoy greeting various neighborhood animals, waving back to friendly drivers and, as our distance increases, discovering roads and homes in Waterville that we haven’t seen before (even after living here for more than three years)!

It is funny that it only takes about 25 minutes for me to lap the entire town.

It won’t be long before we’ll need to venture outside of the city limits in order to get a change of scenery.

Angela Richmond has lived in Waterville for three years. To read more of her writing, visit her blog at inhymnilive.blogspot.com.