After tipping myself out of bed at 7am this morning, I pulled on some running shorts, and headed out of the door to re-start the “Couch to 5K” programme. It’s only been… oh, 20 months since running anywhere at all?
Armed with the official NHS Couch to 5K app, and with Steve Cram filling my ears with motivational thoughts - backed by a retro jogging playlist from Spotify - I set off.
Oh my word, have I ever become unfit.
I’m guessing it’s going to take a few weeks to remind my body that it used to be able to run 5K every day like clockwork. I know better than to rush things, so will take it slowly.
I’m also trying to lose some weight - mostly by not eating rubbish in-between meals. Hardly rocket science, but I know I’m guilty of it. We have a pretty good diet at home most weeks. I am wondering about keeping a diary of what I’ve eaten though - and to not lie to myself about it. It’s about accountability.
After running I posted a photo to Instagram - I’m guessing I should try to do that at least once a week - so I can see progress. I’m hoping the scales will show progress pretty quickly.
I wonder how much rubbish is in the coffee pods from the coffee machine? If I switch out to drinking water it will probably help too.
Anyway.
I’ll shut up about running. I find fitness and diet blogs insufferable at the best of times - so probably best not to add to their number if I can help it. I do have a sort-of-funny story to relate though.
Back when I did the 100km charity run in 2023, I bought some half-decent running earbuds. I ended up with two pairs, because the first pair failed. While sorting through old electrical stuff recently, my other half held a set of earbuds up and asked “are these any good?” - and I thought they were the broken ones, so said “no”. I thought wrong. I threw away the good ones.
Amazon delivered a new set of earbuds this morning (after my run).
Is it sad that I’m looking forward to the next run, purely to try out the new earbuds?