No more running until I had a clean bill of health. This led to a severe hamstring tendon injury that took months to heal. Had I known better, I would have stopped immediately and walked back home, nursing my leg back to health.
At that point in my running “career,” I was inexperienced. As I was out for a run, I felt a twinge in my inner left thigh. Unfortunately, about a month before the race, “tragedy” struck. A completely new challenge and one I was excited to experience. Not because I didn’t like walking anymore, but because I was really starting to LOVE running! I kept at it and soon signed up for my very first 5K race. I ran for a bit and to my shock, I didn’t hate it! In fact, after a brief walk break, I did it for ANOTHER few minutes! It wasn’t so bad! As the days and weeks went on, I gradually started increasing my running minutes and decreasing my walking minutes. A thought snuck in my brain, “I’ll try running for a few minutes to get my heart rate up a little and then go back to walking”. However, shortly after that conversation I was walking on the treadmill as my 1-year-old daughter napped. Then one day, my sister-in-law Kim, an avid runner, said to me, “You should try running! I think you’d really love it!” I immediately said, “I will NEVER run. Around the neighborhood, to the grocery, around the mall, at the park, to the lake, you name it. I walked all four of my babies in their strollers everywhere. No, first, it was something I didn’t see coming… ChaLEAN Extreme Review: Before ChaLEAN ExtremeĪbout 5 years ago I caught the running bug. Certainly strength training wasn’t something that got me excited. I took care of myself, but it wasn’t the priority it is today. In this ChaLEAN Extreme review, you’ll see that I wasn’t always so fitness-minded.