Take baby steps and just get moving!

Fresh starts don’t have to be a Monday or January!! I always think that September feels like a fresh start – new pens, new books and new school uniforms!

But we don’t need ‘fresh’ starts – we just need to start! And to start with baby steps!

Small steps are much easier to take, much less daunting and can help to get you going without feeling overwhelmed. A perfect example, is the bike challenge, which started back in July. The challenge was to see if we could collectively cycle around the UK mainland and Ireland. We had no idea how long it would take, or even if we would manage it – as it’s nearly 7000 miles.

Participants gave us a weekly tally of the number of miles they had cycled each week. To our amazement it only took 6 weeks to get all the way around mainland UK and Ireland.

We just asked people to take baby steps, we had ironman triathletes taking part right through to people who had to dig out their bike from the back of the shed and actually get cycling for the first time in years. Then there were those like myself who hated cycling, but had a go and ended up absolutely loving it!! Everyone was contributing – anything from 100 miles to 1 mile.

The point is that people started – they had a go. There was no set mileage that was unrealistic for some and too small for others, it was all about what people could manage.

That’s what Fuelled By Fun is about - getting moving and having fun while you do it. Don’t push yourself so much that you end up hating it. I used to do that! I would decide that I wanted to start running to get fit so I would go out too fast and too far and end up feeling like my throat had been cut and my lungs had burst - not much fun at all!

Start taking baby steps – it doesn’t have to be 10k’s, half marathons, triathlons (although it can be if you want!) – it’s just about getting moving.

Check out the virtual triathlon we have for October and start taking baby steps (and get a bit of bling at the end of October too!)