I’ve been running for a little while now, but I don’t mention it here much. I think I mostly don’t mention it because I normally just post photos here, and I don’t tend to stop and take happy snaps on my runs. The runs started off pretty modest — initially I struggled with shin splints after more than a couple of minutes. I’ve worked through that and a couple of injuries along the way and am consistently doing 5km runs now.
That said, my longest runs have been in the last week when I did a 7.5km and an 8.1km. I’m building up to 10km, mostly because its a nice round number. I think ultimately trail running might be the thing for me, I get quite bored running around suburbs over and over again.
Its interesting that I come from an aggressively unsporting family, but yet all of my middle aged siblings and I have started running in the last year or two. Its a mid-life crisis thing perhaps?