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I started running when I moved out into the countryside and wanted to see more of the area, without spending all day walking. What about you?
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Pretty boring story. Hey, reckon it would win the shoes??
She decided I was getting to be a fat balding lazy b******d who needed to get off his a***e. Only she put it blunter and ruder!!
Needless to say I did my first half marathon in September while he occasionally goes out for a 3 mile jog if I nag him enough!!
So I did (when I was sober.)
Run on and off since then, and not at all when I was a student, but joined a running club in the mid 1990s. Would like to say "and never looked back" but life since then has been a catalogue of injuries and work committments so have yet to fulfil my potential (which is there somewhere, I know)
Decided to take it outside (free, no gym membership fees, no queuing time for the treadmill, can be done anywhere ...), bought RW last February and saw Race for Life advertised, entered ... the rest is history!
Now I am well and truly hooked and my partner has given up exercise! Typical!
Didn't want to give up drinking either - so thought I'd run it off.
It has worked so far.
but now find I drink much less due to not wanting it to get in the way of my training and I'm totally addicted (to running that is not alcohol).
- ex-drinker with a running problems
cheers
My first season of cross country was spent coming in the last five every race but I stuck at it and was best in the school three years later.
Second time: had spent a post-divorce year clubbing, drinking and binge eating and simply saw myself in the mirror and decided it was about time I did something about the belly that was protuding outwards. The best part now is the fresh air and being able to enjoy the views without getting out of breath.
tried excercise bike, soon gave that up sooooo boring, started running never looked back, some lovely countryside to run in where I live, I am so lucky........
Decided to aim for 2003. Manchester ladies race, 25th WA and then the GNR. Started in Sept, didn't tell husband I'd started until I could do a mile - I'm now up to 3 1/2 or so - very slow but who cares. I'm doing it!
2003 will be the year I finally achieved something just for me! Just off to enter GNR now.
Mr is so pleased he's doing the GNR with me!
I was the fat asthmatic kid at school who was always picked last for any teams, and who was picked on, abused, bullied and generally humiliated by the kids and the staff for being rubbish at sport. PE made my school life hell--I spent years making myself sick, hurting myself, anything to get out of going to school. Amazingly I got to college and got my doctorate in the end, but that was no thanks to my secondary school, who could easily have compromised my education by not dealing with the situation.
Anyway, the reason I started running was simply because I couldn't--and I'd had it drilled into me for years that I was rubbish at this sort of thing anyway. So after I'd learned to swim, I thought, right: I'll run. So I did.
And I am rubbish at it, too (!). But this is the first time in my life I've been able to run for more than fifty feet without suffocating, and it's amazing. Even more amazing is the fact that all the kids who took the p*ss out of me at school are now all fourteen stone chainsmoking mothers of three, whilst the staff . . . well, the only reason they're still alive is because I don't think they're worth being banged up for. However--everytime I'm out on a run and things get hard, I remember my games teacher standing over me yelling at me not to be so lazy. It was a hot day, and with the grass and the heat, I just couldn't breathe, and I collapsed on the track. Looking back I'm utterly horrified at the irresponsibility of these people. Every step I take, every run is a sort of revenge, I suppose: because now I can do it, and I did it by myself--so it wasn't me that was at fault, it was their lousy attitudes and ridiculous 'teaching' methods. Had my school been more enlightened, I could have been running years ago, because it was really something I always wanted to do, even when I was a little girl.
Of course--one of the days I might just run into one of the teachers who made my life hell--and then they'd better look out.
Well done
Was crap myself at school, until there was exercise to music in the early 80s
Aerobics queen from then on
Running, well a couple of race for life , and then realised a lifetime ambition with a (very slow0 marathon this year, so HAD to run outside and not on tready
Knew id got the bug when i crossed the finish line in 6 hours , and thought, well ill do it proprely next time
If the teachers could see me now
I missed a run this morning--I have tonsilitus (if that's how you spell it, ahem) and got into a right strop because I was too ill to do my six miles. The first time in my ife I've ever complained about being ill because I had to miss PE!!! How times change. And how sad it is that our teachers leave us all with such a legacy of resentment.
Anyway, I'm off to watch the new Bond movie now!
Do Kruf 10k, in cardiff
thrill of millenium stadium finish is fab
its a flat course and a brilliant atmosphere, and you would NOT be last