Hi everybody, hope you are all well. It’s been a while since my last post, about 3 months to be fair.
I had all the best intentions when I completed C25K to continue running and improving my health and physical condition which for a while I did. I got myself up to reaching the magic 5k in distance and continued to do this at the weekends with a couple of shorter runs in the week. I still haven’t done that park run yet (still scared) I know the people are lovely but just not brave enough yet.
Anyway the running continued then the nights got darker. I got myself a head torch and the appropriate high viz clothing and continued on.
Then one fateful evening I went for a tumble right by the side of the canal in the dark, I got up finished my run and didn’t think about it until it was time for the next run.
I DIDN’T GO and the next day I DIDN’T go and so on it went.
I came to the realisation that I was scared, scared of falling scared of running in the dark, just scared.
I thought about it for while 💡and thought I need to find another venue, I need to join a gym💡
Now that in its self was a search, I researched and visited a couple in my area but as you can guess I was 😬 well not so much scared but embarrassed, inexperienced and still very unfit compared to what I saw exercising in front of me. And I know these are just my gremlins, I shouldn’t really care about what others thought but I did, so I walked away from them. Spent a few more days mulling things over then had a another 💡moment.
I went to a local school health centre which is very small and not very busy PERFECT for me.
I’ve been attending for the last 4 weeks now and the running 🏃♀️ 🏃♀️ is coming back slowly
Added bonus I’ve lost a bit of weight too using a few other pieces of equipment as well.
I’m excited 😆 and looking forward to the month of getting fitter and the elusive park run
🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️ jog on guys 🤣😂🤣😂
Ps I’m not 😬😬😬😬😬 anymore. I don’t care 😆 I might not be as fit as others but I’m trying and I’m happy with that 👍🏽