Move It!

gotta get my running t-shirt back on!

For a brief time during university, a few months before my final exams (while the stress levels were at a crazy-high level) I used to run. I stopped primarily because my knees started hurting - I think because my trainers weren't particularly for running, and I was running on the roads every night - but once my knees were better I never went back to it.
Don't get me wrong, I've been missing it, and I've wanted to get back into running (or at least some sort of exercise) for a while now but as the nights have got longer and darker it's only made me feel less enthusiastic.
But I've finally done it. I've finally got back into it. I realised with horror that in two and a half months time I would be on a beach in Thailand and I could either be feeling horrible about myself, or I could be feeling slightly less horrible about myself. I figured that doing exercise and watching what I eat a bit more closely might help with that.

only made it to week four...

Seeing as I have exactly eight weeks until I leave for my Asia to Australasia trip, I figured going back to my old running app would be ideal. It's called Zombies, Run! and it's amazing. I loved it when I was running before, so I reckon I'll just start it from the beginning again and hopefully make it to the end this time.
I'm doing the 5k version so there's a series of running exercises that slowly build up your running ability until the end of the eight weeks when you can supposedly run 5k without stopping (we'll see...) You listen to your own music, and in between there's 'radio broadcasts' which tell a story (which I ended up really caring about and I'd end up running just to find out what would happen next.) Oh, and you're being chased by zombies... What's not to love?!