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I halved my 5K time in a year by Michael Mullan, Ready Steady Go Pitreavie I had tried so many times to kick the habit of smoking and failed each and every time, but I finally managed it in May of last year. Two months on I had installed a beautiful new three quarter length mirror into the bathroom. It was fantastic until I got out the shower and got the fright of my life at who was standing in front of me! It was then I started on my journey to fitness.
I bought a bike and used it three times and then left it in the shed - cycling wasn’t really for me! Then I remembered how much I used to love running. I did it between the ages of 14 and 17, and it left me with some very fond memories. How hard could it be to pick it back up? It’s only one foot in front of the other after all, isn’t it? I found out how wrong I was VERY quickly. Google showed Pitreavie AAC Endurance as my local running club. Nice evening it was, so I chucked on my shorts, t-shirt and trainers and jumped in the car to be ready for them all starting at 6:30pm. We started the session at the top of the hill. I got a whole 200 yards down the hill when I thought my whole body was going to explode! I could not for the life of me get my head around what was going on. This wasn’t what I remembered at all! Campbell Blair, a coach, noticing the terror on my face, ran back to me and guided me to start slow - jog one minute and walk one minute. In all, it took me 53 minutes to cover little over 5km. Plenty of time for him to tell me about the group called Ready, Steady Go Pitreavie and the amazing work that they do to help get people, quite literally, up and running. I was sold from that chat. I turned up for my first jogscotland session, with jog leader Nicola Moriarty and
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Summer 2019
