A little about me

My running really only began back in 2013.  My baby boy had just turned one and I needed a little something to do to support my mental health.  Before getting pregnant I had just managed to get up to running 6km so this was my goal - to get back up to this distance again.  It was a slow start back but within the month (I think) I had the 6km under my belt again.  From here I entered a winter series of runs.  Each run was 3 weeks apart and I was going to cover the distances of 10km, 10km and finally 15km.  This was the start of my addiction to running I guess.  From here I decided to enter a half marathon in the December (only 6 months after my first 10km!).  I did it and it was a buzz.  Yes I was very exhausted at the end and it took a little time to recover but I had done it and I was going to go back and do it again.  Last year in 2014 I completed the same half marathon and took 7 minutes off my finish time.  I was stoked.  But it also set something alight in me.  Could I do it and break get back to the finish line of a half marathon in under 2 hours??  Something for me to think about and work towards.  At the beginning of this year, I set myself three running goals as can be seen on the photo:

For me the biggest goal was to just keep on running.  To keep on getting the feeling and joy that I did get from running.  Yes, I'm having a little running break at the moment to get my general health back on track  (but only for this week) and other than this I have pretty much kept on running so far this year.  Back in April I was able to tick off goal number 2 when I ran a half marathon at Waitarere Beach.  Wow - that was an amazing run.  In July I had hoped to tick off goal 3 when I ran in Wellington for the first time ever.  Unfortunately I was 2 minutes 48 seconds too slow.  I've now decided I did do my best during this run and I'm going to get back into some serious training and try in Wanganui for the 3rd time this December and see if I can get there.  This blog is going to be a little about my journey through to December and hopefully then I will be able to celebrate with you all achieving goal number 3.  I look forward to sharing this journey with you all.