NSV: I can jog?! (also- bonus stairs...)

Not sure if this belongs in Success Stories, or Fitness or in Motivation, but it surprised me today, so I'm posting it in Successes.

A little bit of background, so you can appreciate the "whoah!" I've always been short and fat, but am taking it one day at a time. Walking has been my mainstay so far. Weekdays have comprised of a mile in the morning to the third-nearest station, and two miles at lunchtime. Possibly an extra mile in the evening if it's nice and I feel good. Weekends, a bit more patchy. Either lots or none!

I've been off work for two weeks on holiday, which is nice, but today was back to work time. So I strapped on my walking shoes and headed along the river to the third-nearest station. About two-thirds of my mile in I realised that I'd left my lunch at home. More importantly, I'd also left my crochet. :noway:

Well, what's a girl to do, but turn round and collect her stuff. Only problem was, I was now eating into my "getting to work" time. So, I turned round and I jogged. Now, I don't jog; have never jogged; and, until I got drunk and agreed that I'd do a 5K at undefined point in the future with my sister (who's an ex-marathon runner), I never thought I would jog.

But I picked a riverside pub about 0.3 mile from where I'd stopped and aimed for that. Thought I would make it maybe a quarter of the way? Nope, made it all the way! Three minutes! Three whole minutes of jogging! (and my face looked like this afterward: :mad: *g* )

(Don't worry - the pub wasn't open!)

Walked the rest of the way, getting my breath back and made it back home in less than ten minutes.

Before, I thought I probably wouldn't be able to keep my drunken promise for 2014, that I'd aim for 2015 instead. But that this morning has made me think that I could do it in less than a year. Now I just need to check out C25K!

Bonus stairs: I finally got to work, and headed up the stairs as I have been doing for the past two months. I'm on the fifth floor and usually I split the walk 3 flights, then 2 flights. But today, spurred by my awesome jogging skillz I managed all five in one go! I am legend!

:laugh:

TL:DR: Fat, unfit girl who's never jogged before manages a whole three minutes in extremis and then manages to climb a whole five flights of stairs for the first time evar!!! Walking does work!