#newbie running

[runningoncemorewithfeeling]

Saw this shared on my running groups page and needed to share it here!

[runningoncemorewithfeeling]

Whether you are running for 30 seconds or for several hours you are a runner.

As soon as you strap your feet into your trainers and step foot outside the door or onto the treadmill, you are a runner.

You don’t have to be the fastest; the one who goes the furthest; the one who struggles least; the one who runs the longest - You are still a runner.

Missed a run? Missed a week even? You are still a runner.

At the start of a training program, like C25K? Just getting moving more? Running marathons? You’re all runners.

This community should be for everyone, no one has the right to make you feel bad for what you are achieving. You’re only competition and measure of success is yourself - your personal runner journey.

We are in this together! And anyone who doesn’t agree has no business here. Inspire. Achieve. Keep going.

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My Running History

Adding a little context incase anyone is interested!

Pre my second degree (2015) I’d run for a week or so here and there around the coast where I used to live but that was all - and usually in converse 🤦🏻‍♀️. (Ouch my poor legs!)

Then 5 years ago ish my mum bought me my first pair of running trainers (hell yeah!) and I was running on and off during my second degree but never quite making it to 5K which was my big goal.

Last year I decided I would get back on it. I think I started the C25K properly for the first time properly in Aprilish? and by June/July ran my first ever 5K (just along paths not an organised thing). I’d even taken my running things and ran on holiday when my mum and I went to Italy around my birthday! (It was possibly one of the most beautiful runs I’ve ever done!) Later in the week that I managed to do my ‘all important’ 5K I hurt my hip doing a charity inflatable course - I tried to run 5K again for the second time and made it to 2K before pain nearly stopped me but (stupidly!) I carried on until at 4K I could barely walk. I had to stop running.

When I tried to restart I’d gone right back to struggling to even do 2k and it was enough to make me give up. I find running in the cold really tough (my chest hurts a lot) so I had no drive to get out over the cold months and was pretty fine with it.

This year I did a charity 5K (did not run almost at all!) in May with two of my favourite guys (boyfriend and best friend) and had a right laugh. Decided I needed to get back into it.

Started C25K in June. I’ve carried on running since June 3/4 times a week while doing C25K and that numbers only dropped more recently. I’ve now run 5K quite a lot and although each run would wonder if I would finish I always did.

Then about the end of August after a summer of eating and relaxing (Although I had kept running about 2-3 times a week) I suddenly found running a lot harder where I’d put on weight and for the first time since I had started I had to walk to finish parkrun and it shook my confidence massively. I took a week where I didn’t run. Since then I hadn’t even attempted a 5K cause I felt like that all important distance was again lost to me.

In October 2019 I got a cyst in my eye and had to stop running for a week so it could get better without being irratated. Due to a massive bonus of getting a job I haven’t been running since then. I’ve also put on a *lot* of weight which will obviously mak restarting more tricky. I’m planning on restarting in the new year.

So there’s my running story! 🤘🏻👟

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Finished!

Back at the end of May I wrote a post about being halfway through the Zombies Run 5K app.  I can now state I have successfully completed the 5K training!  I CAN finish something I start.

I really did think of giving up around week 5 or 6. I think it was due to shin splints.  I had started the training wearing my Newtons.  I decided I’d try wearing my Brooks and the shin splints went away so I…

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Halfway

I’ve debated writing about this for the last week.  I don’t want to jinx what I’ve started.  I’m so good at starting, but finishing not so much.  This feels different.  I didn’t burn out and I look forward to it, although I simultaneously hate the process of it.

I’m at the halfway point of Zombies, Run! 5k training.

Today, if it’s not pouring rain after work, I’ll begin Week 5 Workout 1.   I…

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