MY RUNNING JOURNEY
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I was in the middle of writing a running update for ya when I realized I have never shared how I started running in the first place.
The truth is, I haven't always been a runner.
Ok, so you know those super fit families? The ones who go for hikes all the time, where the father and daughter go running around Elk Lake once a week?
Ya, that was not my family at all.
Being Italian and all, I was put into soccer at a young age but I stopped around 13 because soccer = way too much running. I switched over to baseball and mastered running the short distance to 1st base. I played baseball until grade 12 and then didn't exercise for a good solid two years...yikes.
I always believed that I couldn't run, that running just wasn't for me, that I wasn't the running type and I was content with that.
Until a few years later where I actually just started running and realized it wasn't as bad as I thought it was.
I started out by running with a few friends running around Rithet's Bog. I honestly had to walk every 500m or so but I kept at it and gradually, the running intervals grew longer and longer until I didn't have to walk at all. I started running on my own and oh my goodness, I actually started to enjoy it.
Now don't get me wrong, I haven't reached some nirvana-esque relationship with running. There are days when I hate it (especially when it's cold and rainy outside) and it's hard to psych myself into going out the door, there are days when the last thing I want to do is go for a run BUT the days when I believed I just couldn't do it, the days when I believed I just wasn't a runner are completely gone.
I'm a runner.
Sorry if this is sounding like an infomercial but I just want to encourage those of you who are starting out running or haven't started yet...you can do it! One step at a time, one lap at a time. You got this.
stay gold,
s.s.♥︎,
