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taking the first steps

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from (failed) goalkeeper and wicket keeper to comrade I grew up fancying myself as a “ball games” guy. I never thought of running as a true sport. Most sports require running. You cannot play football, hockey, rugby, basketball, cricket, you name them all, if you cannot run. To me running was just part of the minimum skills required for any sport – of course chess or darts are obvious exceptions to this. I hated the first term of the year at school. For us, at Dandamera Primary School, the first term was all about athletics. Athletics meant running. Nothing else. Ball games would come later in the year, during the second term. I was perpetually ill during the first term of each school year. I even self-diagnosed myself an asthmatic. My mother did not help matters either. She would pay the school a visit at the beginning of the year to remind the teachers that I was an asthmatic and should not take part in any running activities. Back then parents ran schools, not careerist