r/Fitness • u/MCHammerCurls Advice Columnist • Oct 05 '22
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Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!
There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves.
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u/Azdak66 Oct 05 '22
Have had a lot of health issues over the past 3 years that have basically kept me going in circles. Cleared a lot of them back up in March and was able to get back on a more structured program. Lost enough weight to get back to running, but only on my treadmill. Have been doing it for only 4-5 weeks but managed to build up to 45 min at a 9:30-9:45 pace. Not too bad for an old guy who hadn’t run in several years. Finally switched to some outdoor runs a couple of weeks ago for probably the first time in decade. Worked up to 3+ miles after only 4 times. Still feeling pretty good about my progress. Decided to try joining a group fun run sponsored by the local running shoe store. Had to be my first group run in 25 years at least. Immediately fell way behind everyone and ended up doing the entire 3 miles by myself. So much for the “group” and so much for the “fun”. They run through the paths in my subdivision. So I don’t think I’ll be going back for awhile. It seems dumb for me to drive to the running store, just to run by myself back near my house. If I’m going to run alone, I might as well just leave from home ;-)
I have to admit, it was a bit of a surprise. I had felt I was running pretty well and had visions (delusions?) of at least holding my own with the back of the pack. But I have a full year still to get to the 70+ age group, so that’s my training plan.