Jog On: How Running Saved My Life

by Bella Mackie

There’s a good reason we all (well, most of us) nod at the old cliché that your thirties are the reward for your earlier years. Most people find their twenties difficult – and if you don’t, what were you doing? Were you already forging a great career and getting early nights? I hate you – and I was no different. Oprah Winfrey once said of this period: ‘When I was in my twenties, I was a lost soul. Your twenties are about finding your soul.’[69]