Running for Fitness
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After my three months of pregnancy, I am itching to go back to my fitness goal. Before I got pregnant, I’ve been walking and running around our subdivision whenever I feel the need to work up a sweat.
However, the pregnancy put a halt to all my attempts to get fit because my doctor advised me to stop running and limit myself to brisk walking. Since the miscarriage made me feel depressed as well, I have decided to fight back by making myself feel better. I have thus made a goal of running my first five-kilometer race a month from now.
To immerse myself further in this new fitness goal, I’ve even started my very own running blog. I’ve also been reading up a lot on running as a sport and joining local online communities to keep myself updated. Just when I thought that running will be the easiest sport to learn, I feel a bit overwhelmed with the amount of information I’ve been getting.
Just when I also thought that running will be a relatively affordable sport, I get the chance to browse through expensive running shoes, sports apparel, and the Garmin fitness products. Running won’t be that cheap after all.
Nevertheless, I could always choose to just put on my old, worn, and trusty running shoes and run wherever my feet would take me. It’s an exhilarating feeling to run with all I’ve got, as if I could run from all the things that are troubling and stressful.
I’m looking forward to many runs in the next few days. The ultimate goal is to be able to run a full marathon although I won’t be setting a time limit on myself (running a 42-kilometer marathon seems impossible right now). Right now, my eyes are set on my first race.