Week 10:

One of things keeping me on track at the moment is a wider sense of accountability I have…namely to my running partners and my support team. This weekly snippet widens the net even further! I am now accountable to you…nothing like a bit of pressure to provide weekly updates on progress…goals in action so to speak. SO here it is in a nutshell:

The Pains:

• sore sore legs not used to running time and surprisingly an aching glut muscle from a hill walk!
• having to get up at 6am last week for an early morning run just so I could fit it in my day before I left on a girls weekend away.
• a sense of mild panic about what lies ahead, ie the training, the unknown factor of the run itself, will I have done enough?

The Gains:

•  running at 6.15am along a new route with a different bunch of friends who out of sheer madness do this early morning running every week!
• smug satistaction that I’m getting back to running fitness quite quickly after the summer break, not bad for 41!
• writing up my running diary and tracking my inital progress…feeling organised and on top of things.
• setting up another layer of accountability, another way of saying it outloud via the blog to a wider audience.

 

“To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. It’s really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.”

Angela Lansbury

About the author
Toni loves coaching women and helping them grow their own self success. She is an Internationally Credentialed ICF coach, married, raising three young children in Christchurch, New Zealand.