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Every run πŸƒβ€β™€οΈπŸƒβ€β™€οΈis different

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Well Wednesday I run πŸƒβ€β™€οΈ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 πŸ€£πŸ˜‰πŸƒβ€β™€οΈπŸ€£ 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 πŸƒβ€β™€οΈfeeling lighter πŸ˜‰πŸ˜Š

Then today off I go, starts running πŸƒβ€β™€οΈkeeps running πŸƒβ€β™€οΈ, does 5k πŸƒβ€β™€οΈamazing run πŸƒβ€β™€οΈ no tears πŸ˜‰πŸ˜Š

Such different runs on such different days 😊

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Jay66UK profile image
Jay66UKGraduate

Well done.

There’s a Buddhist saying β€œyou 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

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Kar43 in reply to Jay66UK

Thanks jay

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

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Bridget007Graduate 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! πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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Kar43 in reply to Bridget007

Bridget haha πŸ˜‚ 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 πŸ˜‰πŸ˜ŠπŸ₯ƒ

Oh god I thought it was strava πŸ€£πŸ˜‰ I have both apps running as couldn't choose between them πŸ˜ŠπŸ˜‰.

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Bridget007Graduate

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 πŸ₯ƒ 😊😊😊

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OldflossAdministratorGraduate in reply to Bridget007

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

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Bridget007Graduate in reply to Oldfloss

That sounds much more like me ... πŸ˜ƒ

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OldflossAdministratorGraduate in reply to Bridget007

I love being a snail:)

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Kar43 in reply to Oldfloss

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

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OldflossAdministratorGraduate in reply to Kar43

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

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Kar43 in reply to Oldfloss

I'll find out tomorrow 🀣😊

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Kar43 in reply to Bridget007

Yeah strava shows more calories burned than Runkeeper 😁πŸ₯ƒπŸ·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 πŸ€£πŸƒβ€β™€οΈπŸ˜Š

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OldflossAdministratorGraduate

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

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SaartjieGraduate

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 πŸ˜„ Strange things whatever the reason!

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Kar43 in reply to Saartjie

Totally agree πŸ˜‰πŸ˜Štotally strange

RobW73 profile image
RobW73Graduate

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

Hope you feel ok.

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Kar43 in reply to RobW73

It was a bit rob, Wednesdays run πŸƒβ€β™€οΈwas so emotional but it did me the world of good as today was an amazing running πŸƒβ€β™€οΈexperience πŸ˜‰πŸ˜Šwin win πŸ˜‰πŸ˜Š

I feel great rob 😊

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_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.

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Kar43 in reply to _SimonT_

Hi Simon, it sure was strange πŸ˜‰

I've done rain running πŸƒβ€β™€οΈbut not cry running πŸƒβ€β™€οΈπŸ™ƒπŸ˜Štill 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 πŸƒβ€β™€οΈ so what ever happened that morning made all the difference to today πŸ˜πŸ˜ŠπŸ˜‰

The thought of every run is different is enough to keep us at this running πŸƒβ€β™€οΈπŸƒπŸƒβ€β™€οΈπŸƒ

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