Every run 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️is different

[Kar43]

Well Wednesday I run 🏃‍♀️I get half way through and after a good feeling with usual "good mornings" from dog walking group and the dogs 🐶 then a couple of jack Russell's jumping up at me barking (not so good) but got over that instantly. Then strava saying "you run like hippopotamus 🤣😉🏃‍♀️🤣 do love this strava strange man 🤣.

Then totally out of the blue I think "wow" "I'm running around this lake"

I'm actually running around this lake as I'm training for the charity runs I signed up for.

Then it starts "my eyes fill with tears, there running down my cheeks 😲but I'm still running (slow as I do luckily or I'd have had to stop to compose myself)

I'm still crying for a few minutes then I'm fine still running thinking "what the hell just happened"😲

A very unusual run to say the least.

I complete the 30 minute run 🏃‍♀️feeling lighter 😉😊

Then today off I go, starts running 🏃‍♀️keeps running 🏃‍♀️, does 5k 🏃‍♀️amazing run 🏃‍♀️ no tears 😉😊

Such different runs on such different days 😊

[Jay66UK Graduate]

Well done.

There’s a Buddhist saying “you can’t step into the same river twice”, meaning everything changes all the time, like the water flowing away and being replaced by new water with new things in it.

The run is different; the weather is different; the place you are running changes (even if it’s the same place) and you change too.

I’ve shed some tears running. Frustration. Elation. Whatever. It’s one of the things that makes us human.

Enjoy the next run x

[Kar43 in reply to Jay66UK]

Thanks jay

I'm glad not just me this cry running has happen to 😊

[Bridget007 Graduate in reply to Kar43]

Well done for your runs! Sounds like you were whizzing round on the last one! that’s Runkeeper I think with the man from the USA ... he told me I run like a gazelle and I thought little do you know ... then he told me I run like a hippopotamus... I thought oh maybe you do know 🤣🤣🤣 then he said I could go home and drink a bottle of wine and I thought yup you really do know! 😂😂😂😂

[Kar43 in reply to Bridget007]

Bridget haha 😂 you've got the same crazy guy 🤣

he said that to me this morning

But I still don't know what a gazelle is 🤣he doesn't know me well though telling me about wine 🍷 wine I'd so prefer something bit stronger 😉😊🥃

Oh god I thought it was strava 🤣😉 I have both apps running as couldn't choose between them 😊😉.

[Bridget007 Graduate]

A gazelle is like a graceful antelope ... nothing like me 🤣🤣 I have both apps running too but I like the calories burned on Strava ... so many more ... enough for an extra glass 🍷 or in your case 🥃 😊😊😊

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate in reply to Bridget007]

Gazelles get eaten...snails run slower but can hide and get to where they want to be

[Bridget007 Graduate in reply to Oldfloss]

That sounds much more like me ... 😃

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate in reply to Bridget007]

I love being a snail

[Kar43 in reply to Oldfloss]

Oh no don't know which one I am now then 🤣 the prossecco might help me 😁🤣

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate in reply to Kar43]

It might... probably not but it will be enjoyable

[Kar43 in reply to Oldfloss]

I'll find out tomorrow 🤣😊

[Kar43 in reply to Bridget007]

Yeah strava shows more calories burned than Runkeeper 😁🥃🍷maybe one of these tomorrow as a treat 😁 I've actually got a bottle of prossecco that someone bought me at Christmas so I may just listen to the funny man and have the bottle 🤣🏃‍♀️😊

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

Very well done you.. funny thing this running lark isn't it x

[Saartjie Graduate]

Wow well done! It seems to do strange things to us this running. I think we are focussing on our body so much we step right out of our heads. Probably then let's our subconscious come out...or something 😄 Strange things whatever the reason!

[Kar43 in reply to Saartjie]

Totally agree 😉😊totally strange

[RobW73 Graduate]

Sounds like an emotional experience settling into your new running life.

Hope you feel ok.

[Kar43 in reply to RobW73]

It was a bit rob, Wednesdays run 🏃‍♀️was so emotional but it did me the world of good as today was an amazing running 🏃‍♀️experience 😉😊win win 😉😊

I feel great rob 😊

[_SimonT_ Graduate]

Hi Kar. What an unexpected outpouring of emotion. Must have felt very strange but I guess for whatever reason it had been building up in you. It must have had a fantastic emotional cleansing effect for you to have such a great next run! Glad you are feeling so good about it.

[Kar43 in reply to _SimonT_]

Hi Simon, it sure was strange 😉

I've done rain running 🏃‍♀️but not cry running 🏃‍♀️🙃😊till then.

I just remember thinking what's going on but so glad i didn't stop to think it over as I got through it and like you said I had a great next run 🏃‍♀️ so what ever happened that morning made all the difference to today 😁😊😉

The thought of every run is different is enough to keep us at this running 🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♀️🏃