trying to make a comeback

[Mjerry]

Hello all,

I had written a long post about 2years ago about the mistakes and what I will be doing to make it correct.

I have been trying to make a comeback and keep taking it to week 3 but for family reasons or health I keep stopping. Since this January my focus was doing 75 hard challenge and had made it to day 21 and slowly getting back on discipline and slow walk and then run by September but it took a step back 2 months ago with my daddy’s sudden death and in that moment managed to sprain my left ankle which swelled up really bad. I had all the bad luck same legs twisted again sprained again. Burnt my face with hot oil. So, fast forward to today. I want to start taking long walks to boost myself up but my ankle still hurts, though I walk to work 20 mins each way so I walk around roughly 1 hr easily but that’s a very slow walk.

Looking for mental health talks and tricks people use to encourage myself and what plans can I make to make it easy to come back slow and steady but have it permanently in my life rather than short fast burst as have promised my dad and family to lose 10 kgs of weight and get my fitness back as I suffer from sleep apnea too, before his first death anniversary. So, have around 8/9 months… any help will be appreciated…

Malshree

[backintime Graduate]

Hi

There is a community here called Active 10 healthunlocked.com/active10 which may be helpful if you're finding the running a bit too much at the moment.

Good luck with your journey

[Mummycav Administrator Graduate]

hi Mjerry …so sorry to hear of your Dads passing, you are really going through it at the moment…staying focussed on one thing is hard while you’re going through this so try not to worry about getting back into regular running, healing yourself is the most important thing for you just now…and only time can do that…there are other ways to get active, more mindful techniques, that will help you.. back in time has put the link for active10 in their reply..and there’s also healthunlocked.com/couchto5... where you can have a chat about how it’s going for you x

[Murielbez Graduate]

Hello, well done for not quitting in these difficult circumstances. There is plenty of help on the site but to share a couple of things that worked for me, as I am redoing the programme after completing it in 2019... slowing your pace and focus on finishing the runs rather than speed, redoing a run as many time as needed until you feel really comfortable with it before moving to the next one (some of them I have repeated 3 or 5 times), extending a week to 10-12 days, if you find that 3 runs a week is too much, and finally, recently, I have started to listen to podcast rather than to music and it makes the time fly as soon as you find a podcast you are into. All the best, you've got this.

[Mjerry Graduate]

thank you so much… will try and put these into practice…