Saturday 17 February 2018

It's been a while........

Wow!! I can't believe I last blogged back in October when I signed up again for the great south run 2018. My intention had been to start training again from that point. It didn't happen.

However, since the start of January this year, I have been to 4 parkruns (out of 7) and been running with a friend too. I did also deliberate rejoining a running club but as training sessions do not fit with family stuff, it was not worth the membership at this time especially as I am not entering races on a regular basis to get the affiliated discount.

Anyhow, I am finding several things since starting running again:
* I am actually enjoying running
* going back to parkrun with people, be it friends or my daughter, has made it lass daunting for me to turn up
* whilst I have completed 5km running once so far this year, it's showing that I haven't completely lost fitness over the last 12 months, and my other runs have gone okay with walks in between.
* I really do have an awesome running buddy who adjusts to what I need to do to keep moving
* I belong to an amazing running community online
* I'm reconnecting with running club buddies
* I'm actually believing in myself that I can do this

And to be honest it's the latter comment that I've never really had that feeling of before. I don't know whether it's because I have no 'pressures' such as lots of races, belonging to a running club, but I look forward to running most of the time now. Still need to work more on my motivation but one step at a time........

Along this year, I am tracking my running efforts with the Run Mummy Run challenge where I pledged to run 5 miles a week. It hasn't always happened, however I am still running each week.

So it's all good at the moment.

Happy days