Hello wonderful virtual friends!
As always, I felt so optimistic last night about planning on doing the run today. I knew I had a 6am call planned this morning with Australia, but mentally booked myself in to complete this run following the call- again, this was all my plan last night. Of course, when my alarm when off this morning at 5.30am and 10 new urgent issues seemed to have emerged at work despite a bank holiday weekend, my plan - or any time- for the run quickly went out the window. But I couldn’t shake the feeling of disappointment...and, for the first time in my 32 years, I gave up my one opportunity for a lunch / any form of break today to try and do the run. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t expecting to complete it; having ‘failed’ at my first attempts to both w1r1, w2r1, w3r1 and then w4r1 (at least I’m consistent!) I’ve got used to ‘second attempt’ success throughout my progression. However, lo and unbelievably behold, I DID IT. No stopping, no giving up, no ‘are my lungs actually on fire and I need to stop before 999 are called by a dog walker’ moments; I am both amazed, proud and in disbelief!! I genuinely couldn’t run for the 60 seconds just 5 weeks ago...so I am utterly gobsmacked at such progress!! When I wanted to give up, I thought of SassyF and her immense encouragement, of the people who sent me whinging emails at 3am this morning, of the people judging my snail pace but sat in their cars not moving, and of my Dad who I lost a few months ago and how he battled in his final days. Now I feel like a WINNER!! ❤️
Hope you all have an epic day!!!