Restart - Progress

[stewieUK]

Well, can't believe I've just completed week 5, run 1. 😀 After a false start a couple of years ago (didn't get past week 1), I've just sailed through to here with 3 runs a week and thus far it doesn't seem to be too hard, certainly not as difficult as the first time when I made it through to graduation. So what's different? I've finally learnt to SLOW down. This morning's run I completed after doing a 30 minute circuit training course followed by a mile or so fastish walk to the local gym where I jumped on the treadmill and off I went.

Treadmill! Yep. That's my way of running. For some reason I just hate running outdoors or perhaps it's just reminiscing of school cross country runs when I was a lad (about 60 years ago) causing me to freeze up every time I try. It works for me and I'm just happy that I've overcome the gremlins.

On another positive, I've managed to lose the weight I'd put on since last December.

Nothing to do with running or weight loss but I've also rekindled my photography mojo, so jus a quick shot from my garden to pretty up the post!😀

[Naturesweapon Graduate]

Hello stewieUK and well done on such a massive come back! Wow, week 5 and sailing through, fantastic! 🏅I can relate to a couple of things you said - the importance of running slow 🐌🐌🐌and also the slight anxiety of running outdoors. I don't go to the gym but just do laps to the field opposite my house 😀that is as far as I have gone so far, very familiar environment and it has worked for me✌🏼 Lovely picture! Thanks for sharing! All the best 😊

[ToothPickJafah Graduate]

Hello and welcome stewieUk! What a fantastic post to read! Congratulations on finishing W5R1, well done you!

I do my runs very early in the mornings, at 4am, so I don’t see any people as I like to be alone when I’m running!

I absolutely love the Goldfinch photo! It’s great you have picked up your camera again for photography. I see myself as a bit of an amateur photographer but I lost my mojo a couple of years ago so your post has just inspired me to look out my Sony bridge camera, dust it off, charge the batteries and go for a walk to see what catches my eye to snap 📷 📸

Thank you for the nudge to go find my PhotogMojo! 😊 and thank you for sharing your experience.

Have a lovely day 🙏

[stewieUK Graduate in reply to ToothPickJafah]

I just decided it was a nice afternoon to sit in the garden and watch the world go by! Well, maybe not the world cos it's only a small garden😆 but it's amazing what's going on if you just "take the time to stop and stare" as someone once said.

I'm not sure what stops me running outside: it could be the memories of school days or just not being able to control my pace. I have tried but just don't get the vibe somehow. Even when walking the dogs on the promenade I can only seem to manage a light jog for 50 yards or so.

[ToothPickJafah Graduate in reply to stewieUK]

Absolutely correct about taking the time to stop and stare! 👍😉 nature is so wonderful and beautiful.

Also, nothing wrong with doing C25K on a treadmill. Plenty other folk on this forum have done it or are currently doing it. You do what’s best and easiest for you 🤗 if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!

[Zev1963 Graduate in reply to stewieUK]

W H Davies Leisure (1911)

What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare?-

No time to stand beneath the boughs

And stare as long as sheep or cows:

No time to see, when woods we pass,

Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:

No time to see, in broad daylight,

Streams full of stars, like skies at night:

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,

And watch her feet, how they can dance:

No time to wait till her mouth can

Enrich that smile her eyes began?

A poor life this if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

[SueAppleRun Graduate]

Well done you, we each do what works for us and you've found what works for you. Beautiful photo too