I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions.

Howdy, how are you doing?

I am aching pretty much from head to foot because I went out on my first run in about four, yeah, about four, five months.

And for those of you who'd sort of follow me on Instagram and stuff then you will know that I did the marathon, the London Marifon in April and that I had really only started running at the beginning of the year.

Like I was asked to do the marathon.

I think it was the third of January.

And I started training then and I pretty much went

from like scratch to in the marathon.

And it was an amazing experience,

but it did take a bit of a toll,

and I decided just to chill out from running

and just to rest and give my body a chance to recoup, but recuperate. But I found that I am missing running,

craving it a bit, not in a, like kind of some people and they were talking about this at the the running group that I have started going to

Who I got obsessed with running and they want to the one to go out running almost like every day and any opportunity they get that's not me like if I've got the choice between going running or getting under the very warm duvet at this time of year I probably want to get under the duvet

but I found that I would be walking along or driving along and I would see a runner

going by and I know the part of me that's going, so sort of missing that.

I missed being out on the sort of focused time

where I was either not listening to anything and just like totally

just with my body and nature around me or where I was listening to podcasts and music.

So it felt like my body is craving it,

so it was time for me to get back out.

I also then, and it was just coincidental,

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