running
Spoilers ahead.
It’s not often that a scene from a movie gets stuck in my head. Over 20-plus years of watching movies, there have been only a handful of such instances. Keanu Reaves towards the end of The Matrix, holding up his hand and stopping bullets. Jim Carrey, standing at the edge of his known world in The Truman Show, struggling with doubt and the reassuring words uttered by the godlike voice emanating from the heavens.
I don’t quite remember what triggered it, but when I visited the US back in November 2013 on a business visa, I decided to take up running. I’d previously read about the Couch-to-5k running program that is designed to slowly ramp up beginners into running 5 kilometers in one go. So I went to the subreddit and looked up running shoes. I discovered that there are a few sports stores in the US where they have people who analyze your running style and suggest shoes that would be ideal for your style.