{"id":534,"date":"2022-03-29T16:58:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T16:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itscaitlinr.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2024-05-02T04:28:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T04:28:28","slug":"how-i-started-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itscaitlinr.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/29\/how-i-started-running\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Started Running"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Most people run their first mile in elementary school gym class. Well, I went to a charter school where we didn’t have gym and I never ran a mile in my life until May of 2021. At 27 years old, I had never run a mile. Ever. I grew up dancing and doing cheer so I was familiar with cardio but never thought running would be my thing. That was, until I met the folks at Hourglass Brewing<\/a>‘s run club. <\/p>\n

I started going to the run club at Hourglass in October of 2019. I even made a joke on Instagram<\/a> that my run club shirt wasn’t a Halloween costume, it was a real thing. I’m not going to lie, for 2 years I walked. I couldn’t run a mile to save my life, I complained, I made excuses, and I just didn’t want to do it. That was, until one day in May of 2021, the people I walked with couldn’t make it out and I was stuck with the “real runners.” I had two options, sit at the brewery and drink till everyone returned or try to run. While I wanted to go with my first option, a few of my friends pushed me and said just try. Well, that was the day I started running. <\/strong><\/p>\n

It has been less than a year, but I have tried to keep up with running. It is 100% something you lose if you don’t do it consistently. I started off slow, in June I pushed myself to run a mile a day. Every day it got a little easier and I felt better and better. While run club is a 5k on Monday’s and Wednesday’s, I had never run a real race. I signed up for the Lake Nona 5k<\/a> and had an absolute BLAST. While I was not the fastest, i’m pretty sure I won the award for posing for each camera I ran by. Since then, I have done numerous other 5ks and even did a Rugged Maniac<\/a> obstacle course race. It has become something that I enjoy doing with my friends. Running builds a sense of community that I never thought it could. Of course, maybe that’s because all of my runs end with drinking a beer, but still, the running counts!<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to start running, make sure you have a good support system, have a bomb playlist and enjoy yourself. If you have a positive mind set you will run farther, faster and enjoy the sport. Make sure to check out your local breweries, and don’t be intimidated, not everyone is a serious marathon runner, there are a lot of places where people run just for fun and a good exercise.  <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most people run their first mile in elementary school gym class. Well, I went to a charter school where we didn’t have gym and I never ran a mile in my life until May of 2021. At 27 years old, I had never run a mile. Ever. I grew up dancing and doing cheer so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itscaitlinr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itscaitlinr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itscaitlinr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itscaitlinr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itscaitlinr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/itscaitlinr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/itscaitlinr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itscaitlinr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itscaitlinr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itscaitlinr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itscaitlinr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}