Those were the days...

[TJFlute]

When I was at University I was a cox. I loved the training on the river and the buzz of the races (and looking at the fit guys in front of me who did everything I said ) But I wasn't fit myself: I remember I went to an aerobics session and actually fainted after the warm up session!

I am reminded of the buzz I got from the whole rowing thing when I run now. I was 21 then and I would never have thought that 24 years later I would be running and would be training to take part in a 10k race.

It's great to remind yourself of where you were before and where you want to be in the future. And then make it happen!

[mwgolfacademy Graduate]

Great blog and you are so right:

"It's great to remind yourself of where you were before and where you want to be in the future. And then make it happen! "

[bizzyb Graduate]

This is interesting, when you think of yourself at university and compare what you thought would happen against what really did happen.

The other day I was telling a colleague that I am fitter now and can run further than I could when I was 30, (now in 50s). As my teenager will (hopefully) be leaving OH and me for Uni this year I have to re-think where I want to be in the future, at the moment I feel old, past it and generally ground down, by lack of money for decent holidays and constant stress/requirements to overwork in my job.

I want to run better and learn Italian but beyond that I can think of anything else, suggestions wanted - poverty stricken has-been in search of new horizons - anybody got any bright ideas?

[Grammadog1947 Graduate in reply to bizzyb]

Bizzy, for a long time I chased the "horizon is just over the hill" thing...then one day I realized the horizon is INSIDE ME....

Old? past it? ground down?....no one else carried you one step thru the 60 second runs that felt like they were going to kill you....and noone else will carry you to whatever distance/speed/whatever you set as your next goal...Sometimes it feels like an insignificant thing, but it is not...WE are doing this, one step at a time, dispite all odds. And, that's horizon enough....

[TJFlute in reply to bizzyb]

That's funny; I wanted to learn Italian too. I even got as far as joining an evening class. Stuck at it for a term but found that I forgot everything the moment I left the classroom

[bonnie68 Graduate]

Great discussion this! what running has done for me is to be "in the moment", those achieivements with each and every run.

What is really happening though is that all these "moments" are adding up to a huge, gradual,life-long change. When we look at the past over months/years and see the changes and then realise this means that, who knows? what can be discovered in the months/years ahead . Now THAT is exciting! I can see the the weathered old runner me in in my 60's....

[TJFlute in reply to bonnie68]

This is a great way of explaining it.

[teamgreen Graduate]

Must join in with a chorus of I agree, I second all of the above. 'Like'