It was the first beautiful Saturday of the Spring, the kind of day we in Pittsburgh dream about all winter. I was in my car on the way to the gym for a quick work out before our Saturday evening worship service when I had an idea; “Maybe I should go running outside instead”, since I greatly prefer it to running inside. “Not today,” I answered myself, “I might not be able to make it back in time for service.”
A few minutes later I was stepping onto the treadmill. I pushed the speed up to jogging pace as normal, but then I felt an unusual sensation in my chest. It was disconcerting enough that I slowed back down to a walk. After a moment I was feeling normal again and resumed jogging, only to sense the same discomfort return. Frustrated, I said to myself “You just had a stress test and it was clean, this is something you just have to push through.”
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