{"id":4486,"date":"2018-11-30T04:03:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T04:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2021-08-27T07:27:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T07:27:11","slug":"runner-feature-shelbe-moonbeam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/runner-feature-shelbe-moonbeam\/","title":{"rendered":"Runner Feature – Shelbe Moonbeam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
People ask me “why do I run?<\/em>”, why does anybody run?..<\/p>\n We all run for different reasons, some want to be the fastest, some don’t mind being the slowest and some are happy just to finish!<\/p>\n My running journey all started on New Years Day 2018<\/strong>. My friend Sally took me to my very first Parkrun. I had never ever heard of a Parkrun, let alone ever done one, yet I learnt that this is something that was done every week.<\/p>\n I was so surprised to see how many people were there, I was so nervous, scared, excited and very cold. I had no idea how much of an impact that first 5km run<\/strong><\/a> would have on my life.<\/p>\n So I’m standing at the starting point “Are you ready”<\/em> the race director shouted, here we go 3-2-1 and we were off. Running round the course I had so many thoughts going through my mind, things like.. What am I doing?<\/em> I can’t do this<\/em>, OMG I’m going to die…<\/em> all the way round. Sally kept me going, I ran\/walked all the way to the finish line, when I finished I felt tired but felt amazing<\/strong> at the same time. I did it in 38 mins and 28 secs,<\/strong> little did I know that that would be the first of many many Parkruns. Saturday morning parkruns then became part of my life and I loved it and would get faster and faster with each run.<\/p>\n I was also introduced to virtual medals,<\/strong> these were amazing, so many to choose from but each one meant something different, some for my dad, some for my daughter and some just for me, but every one got me out every day and kept me running.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I was then told about the Facebook group RunThroughUK Chat<\/strong>, never knew that this group would become my new running family. So I booked my first running event with them, this was on 14th<\/sup> February at the Olympic Park<\/strong> and being February it was pouring down with rain but was one of the best nights of my life. When I arrived I had no idea what I was doing but I then heard a voice shout out MOONBEAM hello<\/em>, it was a man called Woody (Matt Wood, known by many as Woody is actually one of the co-founders of RunThrough), he showed me what to do and made me feel very welcome. I did my run in 33mins and 3 secs<\/strong> and I was wet through but felt fabulous, got my very first medal and I was so proud!<\/p>\n My goals after that were to get what they called a sub 30 5km and sub 60 km,<\/strong> I had no idea what people were talking about but over the next few months I found out what it was all about. So I started clocking up the miles each month, 25 at first, then 50 then 100, doing more running events<\/strong><\/a> and more virtual medals, by about June<\/strong> I had done about 400 miles<\/strong> and oh how my body was changing and my legs were looking fabulous!!<\/p>\n