How to run

Subtitle: as an adult, without hurting yourself. This post is my response to the 32-Bit Cafe "Back To School 2026" prompt: "Make an educational/informative page (blog post, tutorial, etc) that about something that "everybody already knows". Believe it or not, not everyone knows about this thing or knows how to do this other thing. But _you_ know; why not share that knowledge?" https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/back-to-school-2026/5099 Premise I was in my late 20's when I first decided that I wanted to start running. There was a group of guys at the office that went on 30-40 minute runs over their lunch breaks, and I wanted to join them. Our office building had a full locker room, with showers and everything, so I thought that this would be a nice way to get some outdoor exercise in the middle of the day, with plenty of opportunity to get cleaned up for the rest of the workday afterwords. Before going out with the group, I did some short trial runs on my own, and they didn't go well. Just…