WTLQuestion for the runners here:
If you could give yourself some advice when you were just starting out to run, what would it be?
I'd tell myself to slow down (pace and KMs).
Pete Anderson 🚲@WTL Slow down, yeah. The first step is also the hardest until the habit's formed (and there's no shame in needing to stop and then get back on later).
Kaneda 🏃♂️🌱🚴♂️🎮 🏳️🌈@dairpo @WTL
I completely agree—take it slow, carefully increase your distance/kilometers from week to week. And buy an inexpensive GPS watch with HR Monitor, keep an eye on your heart rate and use the zones as a guide.
I started right away with 5 km and had to keep running, but it wasn't long before I got injured.
@Kaneda_runs @WTL I did crosscountry from elementary through high school (never competitively, though I made provincials as part of a team once!), so the "how to start" isn't my forte and I have those early lessons hammered in thoroughly enough to be intuitive. That said I've probably stopped running, and then restarted again, probably at least half a dozen of not a full dozen times in the intervening decades so the "getting back into it" is where I can help 😁
The advice is basically the same! Get out there, go slow, and find the pace where your brain does what it needs to to get you back out again. I usually hit that point around 3km in, then can go as long as I have time for.