awkwarian running

I was talking about exercising yesterday. And as weird as it may sound one of my favorite exercises is running. It is weird because I am a terrible running. In fact what I do is closer to plodding. Anyway, running itself seems like a decent analogy to life. I mean in some form it seems like everything we do is like a race. And we can either rush and try to pass everyone or we could slow down and just enjoy the ride. In both life and running, you are going to use a combination of the two.
Speaking of running, in my novel, Savant, there is a school, Union Academy. At this school you have to be very fit. They will even change the environment to train you. Can you imagine that? You are running along as hard as you can and all of a sudden the gravity decreases and you are literally floating on air or worse, the gravity increases.... Well imagine if you were an Awkwarian. They are from the planet Awkwar. Awkwar is pretty much a water planet were the people or blue skinned and accustomed to swimming--not running. Of course they have the ability to adapt just like anyone else. But given the choice they would rather swim.