Newbie to running
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 2:04 am
Hi my name is Renee and I am 35 years old, and I have for the first time in my life thanks to your app I downloaded on my ipod started running (slowly!) I have been a swimmer all my life and have never really had any inclination to run anywhere, the end of my driveway was a long way for me, even though I could swim for an hour and do 5kms without thinking about it.
My main goal was -due to medication and knee reconstructive surgery- I had in a very short period of time - about 5 weeks put on 20kgs and it didn't really matter if I ate lettuce or normal meals I had developed a type of metabolic syndrome.
A few weeks ago we had a post flood recovery dinner in our town, we have had two massive floods here in two years, and our special guest for the evening was Rob De Castella (Australian marathon runner) I sat with him at the table but the next day I attended a school where he talked about his marathon project with some Australian Indigenous kids. We pretty much had our own inspirational couple of hours with Deek where I got to ask heaps of questions. After that it was time for me to drop him at the airport and I got to tell him my story of what was going on. He said - if you start running, regardless of what you eat the weight will fall off. Tell yourself while you are running how good you feel, how easy this is, and what a difference this is going to make to my life- the positive self talk will help you get there.
And so far it has worked. I am about to start week 3 of your get running program, during week 2 I had to go back to a week 1 run cause I was feeling a bit tired and I am a bit nervous about week 3 - to me (a previous) non runner it looks huge, but my goal, as long as I am still shuffling along then I will call it a run!!!
My other motivation was for a mental health reason, I had post natal depression after my second son, he is four now and I find this gives me a greater awareness of the bigger picture and where our worries (which in the scheme of things) are not so big and that really - life is quite good if you make it good.
Looking forward to continuing the program, enjoying some physical and mental fitness and losing some weight in the process.
cheers all
Renee
My main goal was -due to medication and knee reconstructive surgery- I had in a very short period of time - about 5 weeks put on 20kgs and it didn't really matter if I ate lettuce or normal meals I had developed a type of metabolic syndrome.
A few weeks ago we had a post flood recovery dinner in our town, we have had two massive floods here in two years, and our special guest for the evening was Rob De Castella (Australian marathon runner) I sat with him at the table but the next day I attended a school where he talked about his marathon project with some Australian Indigenous kids. We pretty much had our own inspirational couple of hours with Deek where I got to ask heaps of questions. After that it was time for me to drop him at the airport and I got to tell him my story of what was going on. He said - if you start running, regardless of what you eat the weight will fall off. Tell yourself while you are running how good you feel, how easy this is, and what a difference this is going to make to my life- the positive self talk will help you get there.
And so far it has worked. I am about to start week 3 of your get running program, during week 2 I had to go back to a week 1 run cause I was feeling a bit tired and I am a bit nervous about week 3 - to me (a previous) non runner it looks huge, but my goal, as long as I am still shuffling along then I will call it a run!!!
My other motivation was for a mental health reason, I had post natal depression after my second son, he is four now and I find this gives me a greater awareness of the bigger picture and where our worries (which in the scheme of things) are not so big and that really - life is quite good if you make it good.
Looking forward to continuing the program, enjoying some physical and mental fitness and losing some weight in the process.
cheers all
Renee