#slowrunningbean

Hello! Anyone still out there?

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.