It’s Friday already and time to link up not only with your FIVE amazing hosts – me, Darlene – My First 5K and More, Michelle – Running With Attitude, Jenn – Runs with Pugs, and Zenaida – The Running Teacher … but also
THIS WEEK WE HAVE THE BONUS LINK UP, MARCIA’S RUNFESSIONAL!
Every month Marcia opens the runfessional – a place to let it all out and cleanse your soles; if you are needing to release some sweaty secrets or just want to get things off your chest, here’s the place to do it!
September Runfessions
Y’all, I don’t runfess much these days but since I’m trying to be consistent with blogging again I may as well have a go, right?
From Sole to Soul…
To be fair to myself, my mental state and my body, my biggest runfession is basically that I’ve let myself off the hook with consistent running. For Now. This is not a forever thing, it’s just for now while I get mostly my head together.
I will runfess that yes, before my original 2nd surgery date in August, I had some pretty ambitious goals to working my way up to running 5K again in one go. However, that wasn’t panning out too well due to traveling for work and fun reasons, and also thanks to the chronic pain. I really wanted to run that full 5K as my last parkrun before the surgery. That would have been at Vingis in Lithuania. That didn’t happen.
I runfess that not running regularly does play with my head a lot. I’m the first one to say “Don’t live in the past” but a runner’s brain will not let you forget your glory days!! So it’s a constant switch from “then” to “now” and it can be a bit of a downer.
I runfess that I have regular visualization / day dreams of running pain-free and y’all I can’t wait to make that happen next year. Since my surgery got pushed out to October, unfortunately that will mean that I won’t really be able to start Couch to 5K until EARLIEST January, but WATCH THIS SPACE, I will be coming back again stronger than ever.
“When I let go of who I am, I become who I might be” – Lau Tzu
What do you have to runfess this month?
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