Becky's runderful adventures

After feeling sorry for myself last week and having a run break (due to a couple of hangovers...), I'm getting back into it. Although my body is punishing me for it and causing me aches and pains I haven't felt in a long time!  Lockdown is lifting slowly, the future looks brighter again, the nights are getting lighter and everything feels a bit more positive again.  Hold on, keep running. 

I tried running without music today and it will never happen again! I admit, it was not by choice. The battery on my phone was low and everyone knows, if your run is not recorded on Strava (or other running app), then it didn't happen. So I sacrificed my music to save some battery life. Today I learnt that the sound of my heavy breathing and the occasional bird chirping is NOT enough to keep me going on a run. Even a short 5k.  I had nothing to click my fingers to, nothing to sing along with (yes, out loud), No Britney or Rag 'n' bone man (I can be cool...), to pull on my heart strings and push me along.  I run for the emotion, the beat, the cheese, the memories. It is what makes my runs mine.  So from now on, my phone will be fully charged before I set out. I will not make that mistake EVER again.  SILENCE is not golden when running!  In fact, just writing SILENCE is making me want to listen to 'Moulin Rouge: Roxanne.'  If you hear someone wheezing and spu...

  Write like no one is reading.  Stalling already but, well, this is for me really so I'm just going to let it flow.  Ha, that picture make me smile, the massive grey streak from months of lockdown, but a beaming smile after my first half in a while with my best time in just over 2 hours.  My initial blog about running was 1kandagooddeedaday.blogspot.com, I was trying to run 1k a day and do a good deed too.  Simple in theory, but when it came to it, I couldn't be arsed to run every day. I don't have the need to do a run streak (to run every day for days, months, even years on end), wine and a good time has always got in the way.  Also the good deeds were a challenge, beyond doing beach cleans and picking up other people rubbish, I struggled to find the oomph to do other things. Covid also had a hand in that because, well, I don't need to tell you about all the things Covid has stopped for us.  Running has really saved me, BC (Before Covid), it helped m...