….where are you hiding recently? I have been talking about starting the Couch to 5k running plan for around two months now – I’ve bought the running tights, I got running shoes for my birthday, I have a stack of tshirts ready for action, I’ve downloaded the first few weeks of podcasts.

Yet every night come workout time I just hop on my elliptical or start up my DVD.

I want to run dammit.

I suppose it’s a combination of two things stopping me. Last year when I started it in October it really didn’t go well, I wasn’t wearing the correct clothes or trainers so hurt my shins badly and really overheated to the point I almost passed out and had to walk very slowly all the way home – I was lightheaded for days afterwards and could hardly walk on my poor shins. I decided that I’d wait until the spring/summer to try again when I had the proper gear and the weather was better.

There’s also the fact that even after 3 years on this journey I have still never actually worked out in public really, I still have major anxiety about being ‘the fat girl working out in public’ – I know in reality no one would look twice at me, but the idea of running all sweaty and gross passed people makes me nervous.

*Sigh*

Come on woman, grow some BALLS!

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