Week 1, Run 1. Good to be back

[Asthmaticsnail]

My first run today after months of not for reasons including injury, procrastination, laziness and excuses! Feel I wasted all that fitness I gained by graduating the programme. Lessons learned? I shall not add in runs on rest days and I shall not obsess about improving speed/distance. I’m slow - it’s ok. It’s all exercise.

Because it has been a good three months of no runs and my other exercise has been non existent, I took the decision to go back to week 1, run 1 today. Good decision I think, the run wasn’t easy, but it felt good to back out there and wasn’t so challenging that I felt I’d stepped backwards irreversibly.

[Epileptic_Squid Graduate]

Welcome back👍🏻

[Asthmaticsnail Graduate in reply to Epileptic_Squid]

Thanks - already got the bug back, I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s run! 👍

[drun]

Welcome back to the forum and restarting C25K it might help to stick a reminder to your fridge, or somewhere to remind you why you wanted to run.

Set yourself some targets and when you get there reward yourself, maybe a new piece of running kit.

This post is an essential read for those starting or returning to C25K after a break it includes hydration and post run stretching, all of which will help.

healthunlocked.com/couchto5...

Enjoy the journey

[Asthmaticsnail Graduate in reply to drun]

Thank you - good to have the reminder, especially about hydration. I’m so bad at this lately.

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate]

Welcome back to the forum Asthmaticsnail.Remember to take all the runs slow and steady,

[Asthmaticsnail Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

I will thanks, I never found my second gear before and worried about it, this time round I’ll forget about trying to be faster, I’m

Looking for fitness not to be zola budd 😆

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to Asthmaticsnail]

👍 Exactly, I remember Zola Budd from many years ago, she ran some of her runs in bare feet.

[edwardkerrison]

I am like you I have periods of sheer laziness then I kick start myself and love the exercise. Then I think why didn’t I do this earlier?

[Asthmaticsnail Graduate in reply to edwardkerrison]

Lol; our own worst enemies eh! 🙄 maybe the gaps between ‘bouts’ will shorten each time until it just turns into a rest day! 😂

[Now-runner_NeedsAttn Graduate]

I also restarted after injury and once I'd done a few runs without any signs of trouble I felt it was OK to skip some of the runs and got to running a little over 30 minutes today so I'm calling that graduation - for the third time. It was certainly a lot easier than the first time!

[Asthmaticsnail Graduate in reply to Now-runner_NeedsAttn]

Ah, that’s interesting. I do believe a lot of it’s about believing I can do it, so I guess if I feel ok then the options there 🤔 thank you