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RE: Sunday Run: Still recovering
I wish I had the will power to run. All it takes is a little bit of rain, or for it to be too hot, or too cold, or too windy or.... you get the idea.
Need to loose weight at the mo, as put on 5kg over the last several days, eating and drinking way too much. Started eating reasonably yesterday, as well as exercise that doesn't involve the great outdoors.
Perhaps it's because I'm in London, running in the countryside would be more interesting, I imagine.
I know when I was (much) younger, I did about 26 mins, but now that is very unlikely. Afterall that was about 20 years ago. How close did you get to the sub 25km mark?
Is there a park or somewhere like that you can run? It does take some effort to just get out there some days, but I know it pays off. This morning I didn't feel like I had much energy, but seeing a couple of Steemit posts about running gave me some motivation. Having targets helps too. I think my best 5km is 26:30 a while ago, but then I did 27 last weekend.
There are in fact two parks near to where I live, I just need to motivate myself and remove the fear of thinking people are laughing at the old man struggling to run.
I always tell myself that once I'm fitter and lose some weight I will start jogging to keep in shape. Think I may have it the wrong way round. I also have no excuse at the moment, as I've taken two months off work, before we move to live in South Korea for 6 months.
I really want to be in shape for our trip to Korea, as everyone seems so much healthier there, than we are in the UK.