What is the joy?

[Petem56]

I've just read a post from "Oldfloss", on the subject of joy.Joy can be in many forms, and joy for one may not be joy for all.

I'm now sat nursing a strain to my groin, now that is not joyful but how I got the strain is. I got the strain by setting my personal best for 5k on Wednesday and taking 2 minutes 22 seconds off the same course I did last December, I felt the joy in not finishing last and that the runners behind me were all younger.

I'm also feeling the joy because of how well I'm recovering.

Let the joy into your life little by little and keep winning at life 🙏.

[PeggySusi]

Hi Pete, sorry about the injury but pleased you’re recovering.. I can see from Strava that you followed up your amazing run with a reasonable walk yesterday. Your time for that 5k is incredible.. you have put in so much effort.. you really deserve that joy. 👏🏃🏽‍♂️

[drl212 Graduate10]

What a nice post! There is joy to be found everywhere. Thanks for the reminder.

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10]

You are so right about this! I sometime manage to find joy in how miserable a run I’m having. Sometimes there’s something absolutely wonderful about having a massive whinge about how rubbish the weather is, how every step is like running through marmite, that everything feels wrong and awful but you’re toughing it out and doing it anyway because that’s the kind of person you are. I’ve got a really memorable 10 mile run in my head that was horrific for the best chunk of two hours. Loved it. And hated it. But loved that I hated it so much. I don’t know if that makes sense!

Congratulations on the new PB and good luck with the recovery…keep winning at life!

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate10]

Hi Pete...There is a lot of joy in this post...and yes you are so right...one person's joy is another's idea of unpleasant!Finding the positives...the pain after the pleasure..the taking part, the PR...and the speedy recoveries!

Letting the joy in...I love that...well done to you!!

[Jools2020 Graduate10]

lovely post and congrats on the PB ! 👏👏👏👍