Just thought in answer to your original question I'd say it's taken me 8 days to enjoy it...I wouldn't say the running has necessarily got easier but I am loving the freedom and just getting out the house. My legs are definitely stronger and the minutes I'm running are slowly increasing. I've found doing the 30 min walk a day with as much jogging as I feel like within the 30 min has really helped. Even if I have just walked for the whole 30 min it has still helped putting on my running gear and creating the pattern of getting out there (and usually just stretched out any aches I had from a run the day before). I'm jogging for about 20 min now and usually walking for 40 min after that, just enjoying being out, having head space. Think by the end of month I'll be jogging 30 min straight. But I'm just listening to my body and taking it very very slowly. Sometimes I put on my gear thinking, oh this is just going to be a walk as I feel rubbish but I end up running loads and other days I feel great but really struggle, so making myself do it daily really helps. Once I'm running 30+min a day I may start having one rest day a week, but at the moment I just want to get out there, last week I even went for two runs in one day!
Hope you are starting to enjoy it.
Also have to say the new trainers really helped...whenever I tried getting back into running previously I was using my old trainers and just ended up with sore knees and hips all the time, so was a non starter.  |