ChiRunning’s taught me a great deal, about my running and myself. But the biggest lesson is the power of gradual progress: learning slowly day by day, baby step by baby step. Taking the time to master each stage before moving to the next, until what seemed impossibly difficult becomes simple, natural, part of who you are. Gradual progress has taken me from perennially injured runner, barely able to run for 20 minutes, to completing my first marathon for 12 years.