Getting Fit - Recovery from Cancer. 'I can do it'!

2011-06-26T19:09:00.002+01:00

Thanks for all the positive feedback to the question I posted on twitter and facebook earlier this week of 'Would it be helpful if I wrote a blog about my decision to 'get fit' after an eventful year of having and recovering from Cancer?

So, in this first week of rescuing my gym bag from the depths of my wardrobe and making friends with my running shoes, I've reflected on where I was psychically this time last year. I was the fittest I've ever been. In February of last year, I'd started jogging and progressed slowly, ever so slowly, to running. I'd always been wary of those types that I thought got addicted to 'the running thing',but I was, this time last year, running four times a week for about 45 minutes a time and was feeling alive in body, mind and spirit.

This week, when a patient friend took me for my first 'jogette' in the Goyt Valley, I got an insight into the journey ahead when I couldn't even manage to pull my foot up behind me to do 'warm up' stretches, let alone run!

I like to think I have plenty of stamina and a sense of humour and whilst I really have only taken baby steps this week, managing to jog for two minutes, walk for three, jog for two, walk for three...and as a result, I've ached in places i didn't know coudl ache! A friend asked, find one word to describe how your body feels, 'Lead' comes to mind, for now, anyway. But, I do have an aim in mind.

I was diagnosed on 5 August last year and so on that day this year, I intend to run the 3 miles round furnillee reservoir in the Goyt Valley!

Wish me luck friends!

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Deborah Hollamby

Getting Fit - Recovery from Cancer. 'I can do it'!