There I was just plodding along putting one foot in front of
the other, sweating my backside off and breathing like I was about to have a
cardiac arrest. I was doing an 8 mile run, on a route which I have completed
many times over the years and a distance I used to do without thinking – yet here
I was running this particular distance and route a hell of a lot slower than I
had since I started running over 20 years ago!
It got me thinking about all the things I have completed
over the years and how my life is so different. I am older, I am a different
person and my circumstances are very different to 20 years ago. However, why do
we still try compare ourselves or try compete with our younger self?
If I had done that time 5 or 10 years ago I would have been
really disappointed, however, the difference this time was I was running with a
two and half year old in a running buggy! So what might look like regression on
paper (i.e. slower time) the practicality of it was I was achieving more, just
at a slower pace. Anyone who has ever run with a running buggy will know that
it is bloody hard! The bigger she gets the harder my training.
It was also on this run that I thought I need to keep doing
my blogs, something I used to do on a weekly basis, I dropped off from doing
them through pregnancy/grief/covid and wrote my supposed ‘come back blog’ over
6 months ago!
One thing I have always made time for is some sort of
fitness, over the years that has changed depending on my goals and over the
last few years has evolved as I have to maximise my training in shorter work-outs.
Whatever goal we have in life, fitness or business, consistency
is key. Life often gets busy and it is hard to juggle many plates, but keep
putting one foot in front of the other and we will eventually get to where we
want to get. When I got to the top of a hill the other week and bent over the
pram to catch my breath, a little voice said ‘Mummy keep going’ and that is my
reason to keep putting one foot in front of the other…….. what is yours?
