When the body don't cry wolf 100 days challenge Day #5. Last year I ran my first and second half marathon. I was able to do so because I started taking running seriously. But as it appears there's so much more I still have to learn. I started running about 6 years ago. The first time I went to a stadium and ran a lap or two... And felt like I was passing away. Then I took another try, felt pain in my knee and abandoned running for a year or so. After that, I had 4 years of trying running regularly (more or less) in summer, which didn't quite work out as summers are rather short in our part of the world. Another obstacle was the fact that I didn't actually enjoy running. It was the thing I wanted to do because I felt like it would make me a better and healthier person. Like when you take a bitter pill believing it will do you good. 2017 changed my attitude towards running dramatically. I started enjoying the process, feeling better both physically and mentally after almost every run. I started running more often and longer distances. In September I was able to run my first 10km which made me enormously proud of myself. Last year I found a running club which took the process to the next level. That's where I did both half marathons and started running in Fall and Winter. I learned a lot about the right running form, nutrition, consistency. But there's one more thing to learn: how to trust your body. Running long distances is about overcoming. I mean the body kind of tries to stop you from taking too much load because we tend to save our resources as much as possible (thanks to evolution). But you can almost always run some (considerably) more. Nevertheless, sometimes the body does mean you're doing something wrong and tries to prevent you from doing harm to yourself. Yesterday the body told me my knee wasn't alright and it would be a good idea to stop. I didn't listen and got injured. The thing I still need to learn is how to determine when the body is not crying wolf.