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I still remember the exact day I went out for a run for the first time.....do you?
It was a sunday in September 2004 and I had been thinking for a while that I really ought to take up some kind of sport to keep myself fit. Just finished the ironing, hubby was watching the football and I shouted through "I'm going for a run" It certainly got his attention. I had never run before apart from school. Couldn't run down the road then and now I am addicted...love it!!
It was a sunday in September 2004 and I had been thinking for a while that I really ought to take up some kind of sport to keep myself fit. Just finished the ironing, hubby was watching the football and I shouted through "I'm going for a run" It certainly got his attention. I had never run before apart from school. Couldn't run down the road then and now I am addicted...love it!!
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What happened to the frst pair of HI tech shoes?
Very funny Minty.
Happy birthday hippo btw
i was never going to keep it going anyway, soon as race that i entered under duress thru work was over i was out of it
I'd entered the Great North Run
It was in June then
One of my friends from Uni (I was at Newcastle) had done it in 86 and I thought 'if he can do it, then I can!'
I ran just under 2 miles. There was snow on the ground I think
Wrong trainers, went too fast and felt ready to drop after 20 seconds - but carried on and did 10 secs more (and felt even worse!). Entered the Race 4 Life so felt a bit obliged to keep going.
Found this forum and never looked back!
I'd just watched a film called 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' about a lad in a similar postion who got the local blacksmith to train him how to box and he went on to beat the crap out of the bully (Flashman).
I begged my dad to take me to a boxing club - the trainer took one look at me and said 'scrawny legs - you need some road work in em before you get anywhere near ring'
We went 3 miles non-stop and I found I could keep-up with the bigger lads "Hey shrimp, you wanna try out for the harriers - you're wasted here" said the trainer - so began a love affair with running which has had its ups and downs but has lasted 35 years.
I was a so-so boxer but the fastest kid in the school
I was 8 years old and sick of being the chubby slow one in the class whenever we were told to run around the 200m grass track.
Went out with my mum and ran about 400m and that was all I could take before I had to walk back.
To be honest that day I did not imagine becoming county champion over a couple of distances, county junior record holder and a South of England senior medallist before I was 19...I still find myself sitting track-side sometimes and wondering "how on earth did I end up here? this wasn't the way I expected life to go".
Wouldn't recommend a marathon from nothing in 6 months, but if I hadn't had the determination to do that, I'd probably still be thinking I couldn't run. I was amazed to find I CAN, albeit slowly.