How cool is that book title? I’m hunting the book down at the moment, in the hope that it might give me some support in making my new venture stick past my first few forays. Yep, I’m taking up running. Well, to be honest, I don’t know that you could call what I did last night “running” … it was more an energetic walk, with spurts of jogging as the voice in my head told me to “start running now”. My beautiful friend Tracey has recently started to do the C25K program. I’ve always secretly wanted to run …. something about the idea of just me, and the road, and my thoughts, seems appealing. But when you are unfit, and overweight, how do you get to that? Yeah, I didn’t know either – and it was easier to just sit at home and dream about it, but not actually do anything to get me there. Procrastinator, anyone? Last night, I decided it was time to do something about it. Rather than wait until the weather was good, or the stars were in alignment, or we could afford to join a gym, I pulled out the joggers. I searched for some pants – and found them, thanks to my husband’s suggestion (how is it he knows so much about my wardrobe? scary!) And I left the house, iphone in hand, and went for a walk/ jog. How did it go? Much better than I expected, actually! The first session on the C25K app program gets you to walk for a 5 minute warmup, then alternate 60 seconds running with 90 seconds walking for 20 minutes, followed by a 5 minute cooldown walk. I felt better in the running phase than I expected – I really liked it, truth be told, even though I couldn’t breathe particularly well. I also didn’t manage to run for a full 60 seconds at a time, which was a bit of a disappointment, but I’m going to go again tonight, and try and push it a bit more. I’m hoping that before I move on the second day of the program (it gives your 3 days per week of training) I’ll be able to do the first one properly! After I got home, looking like I don’t know what, I felt exhausted. Sore. Tired. Beetroot red. But, I also felt really good. It reminded me of when I used to do karate, and how satisfying it felt after a good training session. And also, how good it felt to do something for me. So I’m on a mission to make this a habit. It’s certainly better than some of my other ones!! I’ll keep you posted about how I go. The scary thing? I was searching on ebay last night for a bike. I secretly harbour the dream to do a triathalon. Yeah, I laugh at me too …. but I’m still keeping an eye out for a bike, for me and for Kelsey, who wants to go exercising with mum!! Till next time …. take care of you! Love Tamara