#endomondo

Need to share my goal here, I crushed my first goal of 2020, which was to be able to run 5k!

In the summer time 2019 I did manage to get to 5k and run that a couple of times. Winter and extreme laziness came around and basically all exercise stopped for me as I was constantly cold. I was jobless so relying on one income only, we saved on the heating. Yeah, not a fun time. Rewind to now:

I have a job, we can afford heating, things are just better and I’m more motivated and consistent than ever before. But I hadn’t run in MONTHS so I basically started from scratch. However this time around although I started January off with running a slow 2,5k, jan is not even over and I’ve got in my goal and I’m so happy! I honestly thought I’d have to work through it for 3-4 months like the first time around.

This really proves to me how quickly we can see change when we’re consistent. Not motivated, not passionate. But CONSISTENT. The body adapts so quickly, much quicker than we think. We’re almost over January and so far

- I’ve dropped 5KG

- I’ve come from running 2,5k to 5k

- I ran my 5k even quicker than I did last year

A LITTLE BEFORE AND FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT THERE EVERYBODY

Its all wet and rainy and humidy and Vietnammy in Hanoi today, everyone has their big raincoats over their bikes and I liked the way the buildings and sky looked in my front garden bit. I got loads of “you’re mental” smiles and grins from my Vietnamese neighbours as I sloped home soaked to the skin in my vest.

It is going in the right direction, but it is really difficult to still be so far from my before-christmas-shape.

14k run today.  My stupid phone decided to restart so there’s about 200m missing and I walked it, which meant it was longer, while I got everything going again.

That face is a very satisfied face!