10 Reasons To Take Up Running

We've already covered how running will heighten your fitness and help you drop weight in a safe, efficient manner. But what's the ultimate purpose behind all this? To look good? To feel good? Are those justifications enough?

For some, maybe. But for the rest of us, running is a simply brilliant excuse to allow us to eat more cake. All that guilt associated with having one more gapeful of gateau dissipates when you've just done an intensive thirty minute run. You're basically banking your fitness.

If anything, knowing there's a succulently spongy slice at the end of a session only motivates you harder. Aren't you going to run even faster if the reward for getting home is a mouth-wateringly delectable chunk of cake?