So today, for the first time in a long time, I went running.

It. Was. Amazing. It was hard, and bad, and disappointing how unfit I’ve gotten…but it was also amazing. I’d forgotten how much I love that feeling of just running, of feeling the ground move underneath your feet, of hitting your stride and knowing you can do it, of feeling like you could almost do this forever…

Don’t get me wrong. I was awful. I’ve made an executive decision to go back to Day 1, Week 1 of C25K. I think starting from the beginning is the best decision I could have made. Because it’s hard. It’s not the same difficulty as when I first started at the end of 2008. I can run for a minute without wanting to die. But I didn’t complete the course stitch-free, which means my lungs need to be stretched back into shape.

So it’s back to the beginning for me, although I’ll hopefully go through the program faster this time. And I know it’s going to be hard, and there’ll be days where I just can’t get into it, it won’t work, and I’ll whinge about it….but when it is working, I just love it.

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