I remember thinking I need to get active, so I went online and came across couch to 5k. I really didn’t want to join a gym and although I like to swim, my ability was below average. In my mind, I thought running would be easy. Little did I know that when I started to run the muscles in legs must have been wondering what on earth was going on!!<\/p>\n
After completing couch to 5k. I continued to train with my running club twice a week and do parkrun religiously and loved every minute of it. They then created a 5 – 10k programme and I decided to do it straight away.<\/p>\n
I moved away unfortunately, so I was no longer able to use my running club. I had learned so much from them about my posture, using my arms mixing up my sessions such as tempo runs. I subscribed to newsletters about running. After my first official 10k I felt like a fully fledged runner! I was a bit hard on myself striving to improve my time constantly.<\/p>\n
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During Covid I was able to take part in some virtual challenges with my old club. Once I knew running was truly for me, I invested in some trainers what a different it made in terms of comfort and actually understanding the importance of a well fitted training shoes.<\/p>\n
I now confidently run 10k at least twice a week. I am now entering more official races now we have come out of lockdown to add to my medal collection.<\/p>\n
My running goal for the New Year is to train for my first half marathon. I want to continue to run consistently and maintain my fitness. Running has helped with my mental health I feel good after a race and ultimately, I am proud of myself. If you had asked me a few years ago, do you think you could confidently run a 10k<\/strong><\/a> or have you ever considered doing a half marathon I would say absolutely Not!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My daughter tells all her friends how her mum is a runner, and they always say that’s amazing probably in their mind I’m old 😊<\/p>\n I am excited and hope to continue this journey for many years to come!<\/p>\n Best wishes I remember thinking I need to get active, so I went online and came across couch to 5k. I really didn’t want to join a gym and although I like to swim, my ability was below average. In my mind, I thought running would be easy. Little did I know that when I started to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2955,"featured_media":6758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2955"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6766,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions\/6766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCarol<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"