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Philippa, from Hampshire England, is a longtime Dietgirl reader. She’s just finished the Up &amp Running 5K Course and inspired my socks off with the wonderful modifications she produced over the eight weeks, inside and out.

I asked if she’d write about her running experience for you guys and she kindly obliged!

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Running was for fit men and women. Cool, confident folks with bouncy ponytails who never broke a sweat. Not people who as soon as ate a entire takeout pizza, plus side dish, plus dessert for dinner, nor individuals who got breathless walking up stairs. Running was for other individuals.

So how did I end up in the park on my day off, wearing trainers and a sports watch!?

A year ago I’d been in significantly the identical position. I’d downloaded the Couch to 5K programme and gave it a go… for a entire 10 days. I turned purple, virtually hacked up a lung and proved all the points I thought I knew about running, which includes the truth that I couldn’t do it. I went back to the couch and the calorie counting. This had worked for the last couple of years, taking me from 220lb to 162lb. There was in no way significantly physical exercise involved I didn’t stick with anything for long.

So why would running be diverse this year? I was still a bit overweight, I still hated public exercise and I had already established that I just couldn’t do it. I wrote to Shauna about Up &amp Running and she assured me that becoming a bit overweight and unfit wasn’t a problem. My negative little brain insisted, C’mon, she does not mean you, you’re a whole new level of couch potato! But Shauna gave me a firm nudge, saying that if I genuinely wanted to do it, it was achievable.

I really actually wanted to. I signed up for Up &amp Running and for the next eight weeks I walked, skipped and stretched. I did arm swings, side-stepped and skipped some a lot more.

And I began to run. Slowly.

It was so slow that I could most likely have walked faster! But the initial time I ran I laughed out loud, proper there in the park. I was like a kid in the playground going down a slide, that feeling that makes you want to shout, Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, look at what I can do! That initial 10 seconds of running was amazing. That was what got me out there for the next session – I wanted more of that feeling.

Occasionally the training messed with my head. I had to push Little Miss Grumpy out the door when she didn’t want to go. I’d doubt my abilities as I read the training strategy, “They want me to do what?“. If I had a ‘bad’ workout I’d be convinced the magic was gone and every thing was about to come crashing down. Years of negativity about my abilities weren’t going to disappear in a few weeks. But it wasn’t magic that had got me running – that wasn’t going to disappear either! It was just an off-day and with the support and advice from Coach Julia and the other ladies, I got back out there and kept going.

Along the way I’ve learned so a lot more than just how to run. The individual who began the Course didn’t know what she was capable of. She was scared of so several issues, with failure becoming best of the list. She hated what she looked like and she positive as hell didn’t want to draw attention to herself either.

But now? Searching in the mirror I can still see the stretch marks and a belly roll and thighs, but when I run it does not matter. My thighs aren’t monsters any far more, they’re strong and powerful. And they work! I’ve never treated my body really kindly, damaging it and filling it with substandard fuel, but it is mine and regardless of what I’ve put it via it still works. Whenever I run it does what I ask it to do, rewarding me for treating it much more kindly.

The Course finished with us completing a 5K race. Every training session had covered a maximum distance of 4km, so I wondered if I had it in me.  As I began my stopwatch I was terrified. The old feelings of self-doubt were there until I ran past a small old lady. She asked me how several miles I was running.

“Three miles!” I said.

And just like that the fear was gone. She saw a chick in running clothes, running. She saw a runner. So of course a runner would be running a few miles on a lovely sunny morning! God bless that lady.

I finished my run in 37 minutes 8 seconds feeling great. Not anything remarkable, just very good. I came residence and it all felt like a bit of an anti-climax.

But then the tears came.  Wonderful tears, as an additional Up and Runner called it, “talking with water”. Thirty years of fearing failure poured out out with the realisation I’d accomplished some thing I’d by no means thought feasible.

I’m planning my running future now. I did a 5k neighborhood parkrun this past weekend, then in mid June I’m going to Scotland to run with some of the other Up &amp Running ladies. I’ll meet Shauna and thank her in person for being a massive component of my journey (and to apologise for making use of that cheesy word!).

I still have some weight to lose but it’s not the only objective now. I want to run well and I know that becoming a small lighter will aid, but I want to accomplish items with this body of mine. I want to run 5km Quickly! I want to do the Up &amp Running 10K course in September and I want to run a marathon some day!

I do not know how but or what else will occur along the way, but I do know my body can do incredible items now. And I won’t let fear quit me any far more.