Sometimes running is like starting again

I started running on the 24th April 2012, I know this date as since then I have logged every run on the My Asics App.

Day One

I had turned 50 the previous December and this plus a couple of other events drove me to get off my "lardy arse" and sign up for the Royal parks Half Marathon that October.

Since that fateful day it appears that I have run 1,950 miles, nothing by some peoples standards but by mine quite a flippin few! in fact an average of 11.67 miles per week so not that shabby.

Running was a bit of a "Starting again" moment for me, starting to try and find a bit of me that had been buried under life's demands.

At times I felt like this 

 

However what I didn't envisage was the number of times I'd be "Starting again"

 

Now I really admire those runners who manage to enter back to back events and do massive run streaks but that is not me, I can't fit that in with everything else required by family and work, so my training and races have to fit around that and perhaps this is why my running is so cyclical.

 

 

I've run in the sun and crashed and burned  

I've run in the woods dressed as a Pirate

 

I've landed flat on my face at the fate of a tree root

 

Seconds before propelling myself into a mirror

 

Seconds before being squashed by a bar

Seconds before falling on my nose

 I've done lots of strange things to try and make myself stronger

 

And also run marathons, not too badly

 

In fact over my running career such as it is I have now run 3x10k races, 2 Half Marathons, 1 Trail Half marathon, 2 full Marathons and the Great South Run.

 

But my running is as stated before cyclical !

 

I can go from being "On it like a bonnet" to so far from it I can't remember why I ever put my runners on.

If you're like me sometimes you just have to be resigned to the fact that this happens

 



Resigned

 

I'm in one of those phases now, only really training three times a week, a track session, PT session and a weekend run, but I do know that will turn around and increase when circumstances allow.

I don't have any races currently planned until 2016 so there is no pressure, however I also know I will race again in 2015 just not entirely sure when.

So I'm in a "Starting again" phase as far as I'm concerned, and starting again means getting somewhere!

Is your running cyclical ?

Starting again.....AGAIN!

 Paul