{"id":2488,"date":"2017-05-19T16:45:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T16:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irun.wales\/news\/enhannah-recreational-runner-cymy-name-is-hannah-and-im-a-recreational-runner\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T22:50:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T22:50:56","slug":"hannah-recreational-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irun.wales\/cy\/news\/hannah-recreational-runner\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah – recreational runner."},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday I attended a Leadership in Running Fitness<\/em><\/a> course provided by Welsh Athletics. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m a runner, *she says reluctantly* I Love running, I like to inspire people to run so, naturally, the leadership course just seemed like the obvious next step. <\/h2>\n

Now, here\u2019s where it gets very complicated; the two Hannah\u2019s turned up to that course. There was the Hannah who had said to her husband that very morning \u2018It\u2019s still not a world I belong to is it?\u2019 and the Hannah that bounded into the classroom excitedly wearing her London Marathon finishers t-shirt with absolute pride, practically screaming \u2018Lets Run!\u2019<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t get me wrong I\u2019m fond of both these Hannah\u2019s. <\/p>\n

The Hannah who is still weary has a good edge, she\u2019s not over confident, she\u2019s humble and appreciates the hard blinking graft it\u2019s taken to get into a pair of trainers let alone attend a course that\u2019s going to help others down that route.
\nThen the Hannah who calls herself a runner, who tweets all sorts running , who is overly confident in her ability to run whatever speed, distance, terrain is asked of her, that\u2019s written the damn book on running, she, is also a decent girl and separately I am proud of them both.<\/p>\n

So, with that in mind you can imagine the conflict that battled within me as soon as I sat in amongst a load of Lycra clad individuals, clearly from a world that I\u2019m both in awe of but still terrifies me in equal measures. <\/p>\n

\u2018I can do this, I am a runner.\u2019 Hannah One said. <\/p>\n

\u2018What the hell am I doing here? I hope no one finds me out!\u2019 Hannah Two scribbled in her notebook, avoiding eye contact and sweating in areas she does not sweat in during a run! <\/p>\n

Both Hannah\u2019s loved the course. And both would highly recommend the course to anyone who, like her, is obsessed with the science behind running, the why\u2019s and what\u2019s, how to encourage, motivate and dare I say inspire. It made a lot of sense in areas that had previously been grey to both the runner and non runner in me and the tutors were amazing to the point where both the runner and non runner felt comfortable in attendance! <\/p>\n

I leant lots of new tricks and tips and met lots of new and interesting people, people that without meaning to, completely intimidate Hannah the non runner but intrigue Hannah the runner. <\/p>\n

Which brings me on to the one huge lesson I will take away from the day I spent learning to lead a running group. <\/p>\n

I am a recreational runner.<\/p>\n

A social runner. <\/p>\n

A fun runner! <\/p>\n

These are all statements I say through gritted teeth because despite the bravado, the humour and the sometimes dismissive attitude I want to be regarded as a runner. I want the work and hours and more often or not the blood, sweat and tears to be reflected in how people view me. I know I will never win a race; I know I\u2019m not overly fast nor is my form spot on. I know, more than anybody, that I don\u2019t necessarily \u2018look\u2019 athletic but by god do I try hard. <\/p>\n

I take everything to do with my running seriously. I trained solid for four months for a marathon I didn\u2019t ache after! I missed nights out, birthday parties, precious hours with a toddler that I hope, one day, will be bloody proud of a mother that dragged her frame around 26.2 miles with a constant smile on her face – so when one of my fellow Lycra Clad learners said; \u2018I assume you\u2019ll be in the slower group?\u2019 I couldn\u2019t help but be firstly, hurt, then offended and then blinking angry! <\/p>\n

What gave him the right to assume I would be categorised as slower when he\u2019d not witnessed me run? Was it my chubby cheeks, my jazzy capris or the fact I seemed more concerned with my pig tails than my warm up?
\nHannah the non runner tried to pacify my rumbling emotion. He\u2019s a club runner, he is a proper runner, she said meekly and that was the fundamental moment that I decided that Hannah the non runner had to go. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve not spent the last four years building my mileage up, writing a god damn book, trying to get Tom, Dick and Betty out for a run to not feel worthy of calling myself a runner! My sheer involvement with Run Wales should have previously been enough proof to me that a spade is a spade and a run makes you a runner, but I suppose life has a funny way of making you learn lessons. <\/p>\n

So, with all this now in mind… <\/p>\n

My name is Hannah, I am a runner. <\/p>\n

More information on the Leader in Running Fitness course can be found here<\/a>. If you are also a runner, you will enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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