What happened after Running! Easy! Easier than squats and intense exercise sets, presumably not needing much mental power to calculate and follow programs, the internet and its dog say it burns the most calories, healthiest for health, all of that. But it could be boring. Not for everyone. Not for Tara and I! We decided to stick to a realistic plan of doing a long slow run together at the weekends, and during the week to carry on with our training the best we could, amongst other commitments. We see each other as flexible and motivated (how else, if it is to get this thing done!). Rain did not stop us, so juggling life would not stop us either. Well, the initial runs were different, to say the least. What on paper was a 3km jog, in practice it felt like a 10 km sprint whilst breathing in a paper bag.  I was also very consciour of being visible.  I sabotaged many of those first runs speeding up seemingly nonchalantly when I felt seen, especially along the pavement by other

  The Beginning: It was a sunny end of October morning, in 2021.  Tara and I went for our usual jog in the morning, a routine that we just took up together, to motivate eachother and have company. Tara has a history of running long distance which quite intimidated me, but I tried to one-man-up her with my stories of volleyball in my other life, and HIIT consistent training at home during the Covid nightmare.  We usually did this after dropping the kids to school. It must have been our 4th or 5th jog together, and we felt the endorphins kicking in, felt badass because we did not fizzle out. It felt like it was meant to be! I jumped on this energy train as I admire this woman so much, she is one of the two mums I have serious in awe girl crush on, she's a pure go-getter kind hearted no-nonsense person that seems to add incredibly great value to whatever action she takes in her life. Infact, on our first ever scheduled day for a jog together, it rained cats and dogs and we wer