Lazy bar steward...

I haven't run at all in nearly 3 weeks! This follows on from a failed attempt at joining my local running club. I went to my first ever session which was a Tuesday night session; speed work. I'd never done a speed session but this was one of the reasons I wanted to join a club. The only speed work I'd done had had nothing to do with running! Anyway, that was a good session & the people were nice  (I'm amazed at how nervous I was about them being potentially awful..picking on the new kid when the teacher wasn't looking!)

The following Sunday I popped along to their club LSR. I got there just as they were about to head out. They asked what distance I was currently covering & I said 8 miles(ish) "Great. You can go with these guys. The others will be doing 5 miles" Like a complete (k)nob , off I bound like a lunatic. It was all of 10 secs before I thought "bugger me this is fast!" Obviously I wasn't going to say anything so I just carried on. I'm a man after all. But by 2.5k all bravado had been left behind...just like my arse was about to be! I called out & said the pace was too much and we went our separate ways. Unusually for me, that knocked my confidence. And over the next 3 weeks I used every pathetic excuse in the book not to run. I haven't been back to club runs yet, but I will.

ps in case you're wondering about the pic...this is my first blog entry so I'm just practicing.

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