#slow runners

[dannissunnyday]

*pretty slow - because muddy roads - run. But I had a lot of energy 🤩

[atevanfool]

I did it!!!! It may not be a huge accomplishment to most but my goal was to see my mile under 15 minutes and I DID it. Both miles included 3 - 5 minutes of walking, 5 minutes as a warmup during the first mile and and a few minutes reprieve after running nonstop most of the way around the lake during the second.. I may never be fast, but this proves I CAN get faster than I was. 💚

[lifeinquarantine]

#37 go on a RUN

I’m not going to sit here and say that running is therapeutic, or live laugh run, not while I’m still experiencing some form of cardiac arrest after a 20 minute jog I went on over an hour ago. Why should you go on a run? I don’t know, maybe you’re one of those funky people (to put it nicely) who goes on a run and discovers their natural talent, who loves the feeling of wind blowing though their hair and saying that it feels “just like flying”(no it doesn’t). Maybe you just want to feel a little active, get out of the house. But maybe, you’re like me , and you don’t so much love running but you love imaging another life for yourself while you run so that you don’t think about the pain and are simultaneously living some kind of fanfiction out in your head. 

I’ve gone on a total of 4 runs this summer, these are the notes from each run. “At least I finished it” now, thats the Olympic mindset, is it not?

ANYWAY, Running can improve both your physical and mental health, and you don’t need to go on a sprinting 10k run, just jog a 2k like I do and call it a day. (Sometimes when I’m feeling very bad, running makes me feel a little bit less like garbage)

BE SAFE WHEN YOU RUN!

-absolutely avoid running in groups, (if you want to run with someone, someone from your household is preferable) 

-avoid touching shared objects 

-Don’t go to gyms! running away from people is the goal, and if you have a treadmill at home, go nuts then

this was too funny not to share.

Have fun running (lol JK)

Hana

[runningoncemorewithfeeling]

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! 🤘🏻👟

[slowlyeverchanging]

No cute finisher pic because they ran out of medals (theyre going to be sending them to you after) but look I ran my first 10k. With a bathroom break in between, hot temperatures (I got pretty sunburned), and darn hills (okay slight upwards slopes but I'm Dutch so those things are hills to me). So proud of myself and everyone else who was running, especially those who were running in their underwear like me for the celebrate you movement.

Also shout out to all the people I don't know who took holiday pictures of me in my underwear running, you're all weird but whatever

[gveerkracht]

Training at 3PM was no joke, interval training on ✔ HOW MUCH I MISS TRACK!!! 😍❤ Happy Friday, beautiful people! I have class this evening, fun! 😥

[gveerkracht]

Light 5K done I miss my babe 😭😭😭 This has been a post 👍

[hate-myself-andthe-president]

My asked in a group chat full of girls “What do you think of joggers?” And I was kinda confused, but I decided to ask the stupidest question ever. “You mean people who run really slow?” And no one sends a single message it’s super silent until someone sent a “Uh...” And I was like “Bro I’m actually confused.” And someone said “Maybe they were talking about the pants...” And I just. I just. I just realized how much I don’t care about clothes. I may dress nice, buut Idk what this shit’s called!