How I became a runner?
About 2 and a half years ago, I was one of those women who likes to hangout in the malls. But then things changed when I met my boyfriend. He has a very active lifestyle and loves to run. Because he spends most of his weekends either running or hiking, I have to do some running myself to keep up with him. But now things changed I am faster runner than him and actively participated more races than him. But I still could not keep up with him on cycling.
Back then, I had a roommate who loves to run too. I told her that I will join on her runs in the galloping goose. The first time I run was about 1.5km, at 200 meters i was already gasping for breath. I told her to just leave me behind, and I walk the rest of the distance. I keep running for 1.5km, then to 3km, and then just out of the blue, me and some friends just decided to take a bus to elk lake and do the entire 10km loop. A kilometer marker seems to be forever, we run and walk.. until we finished it. After that experienced, I decided to sign up for the 8km run for goodlife fitness victoria marathon. And then I started running with my boyfriend as well.
I still consider myself a beginner in running because I have not done my first full marathon yet. But now i can easily run 21k without worries. I had participated one 8km run, three half marathons, and is currently training for the 56 kilometer "The Great Lake Walk" around Lake Cowichan on Sept. 21st. We're planning to do a run and walk for this event.
The runkin at Oakbay half marathon.
How I became a cyclist?
Victoria is a very cycle friendly city, bike lanes in most streets, co-workers cycling to work. Because of this I am motivated to own a bike myself. My first bike is a 100 dollar bike, it has gears but difficult to changed. You know what a 100 dollar bike is. Anyways, back then, I did not know that 5000 dollars bicycles exists. The last time I rode a bike was when I was only 12 years old. I pushed my bike from the bicycle shop towards my boarding house cause I still have to practice how to ride again. In the galloping goose near the Cecelia ravine park there is a bit of a space that I can practice. Several times, I get into the bushes, got lots of bruises too. I practiced after work until I am able to cycle about 500 meters. But then, in the galloping goose there's this posts that separate the lanes. I had difficulty passing my bike into those posts. And there's the bridge between the lochside trail and the galloping goose trail that I have to push my bike when passing over it. I never gave up, I practiced and practiced and practiced and practiced. And just yesterday, me and my boyfriend cycled a total of 82km from Victoria(this is going to be a separate blog posts) to Salt Spring Island. But its not on a 100 dollar bike anymore.. and i am in complete cycling gears as well.
Why runkin?
My boyfriend fondly call our dog rumpkin, but I want to call her runking because she is a fast runner border collie, but because its a she I could not call her a king, and while we were brainstorming on how to call my blog we just settle for runkin. Run+kin, a running family. On my upcoming posts, I will refer my boyfriend the "Runkin Man" and Rosy the border collie, the "Runkin Dog".
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The Runkin
Nice first post Runkin!
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