Oiselle Blog - Bird is the Word

My love for running began after a major automobile accident in 2004. I had always been a recreational runner. I ran as a way to escape stress during college and had done the occasional 5k to support different charities, but I had never trained for a race before. The day before my accident I had decided to train for a marathon. I had gone out for a training run following a plan I had found in a book.  I felt great. I felt as though I had made a commitment to myself to do something that few people I knew had done. And then everything changed.