At least I never walked .
Pain was inevitable so just received it.
If pain weren't involved, who in the world would ever go to the trouble of taking part in sports like the triathon or the marathon,which demand such inverstment of time and energy?It's precisely because of the pain ,precisely because we want to overcome the pain,that we can get the feeling ,through this process ,of really being alive --or at least a partial sense of it .Your quality of experience is based not the standards such as time or ranking,but on finally awakening to an awareness to the fluidity within action itself. If things go well,that is.