Running!

I've always wanted to be able to run. At school I was good at sprinting, and loved doing the 100 metres, but cross country was a different story - I HATED it! A few years ago, I decided I was going to learn to run, and entered the Cheltenham Race for Life. I started doing a walk/run program, which builds you up gradually to being able to run for 30 minutes. And I did it - I completed the R4L on a boiling hot July day, and it was great. Then I stopped, and although I did a lot of exercise - body pump and combat classes at the gym and kickboxing lessons, I never went back to running.

Skip forward 4 years and I haven't done any proper exercise since I was about 16 weeks pregnant with Jamie. The other day, a friend tagged me in a photo on Facebook, that was taken at a wedding we went to in July. Daisy was about 8 weeks old at the time. Well, I looked huge! I know I had recently given birth, and I was wearing quite unflattering clothes, but the image stuck in my head and I decided there and then that I was going to start running again. I talked to Wayne and he said he'd look after the kids when he gets home from work at 4.15pm, so that I can go out running.

I'm following the walk/run program again, which starts with "run 60 secs, walk 90 secs, x 8 reps". Doesn't sound like much to run for a minute, but it's soooo hard! I am determined to stick with it though, as I know it works and in a few weeks I'll be able to run for 30 mins...seems like an impossibility at the moment but I am going to get there!