About me - Chloe Brain✨

I’ve always wanted to be a runner. The problem is, I’m really good at starting things and absolutely terrible at finishing them. I must have started Couch to 5k three or four times over the past few years. I’d smash week one, feel like Mo Farah by week two, and then usually sack it off by week three when breathing became a full-time job.

Every time I quit, I told myself it was a “tactical break”. Spoiler: it wasn’t. It was me convincing myself that maybe running just wasn’t for me - like skiing, yoga, or assembling IKEA furniture.

This time around, I knew I needed to do something different. I didn’t just need motivation. I needed shame. Public shame. That’s how my TikTok page started. I thought, "If I’m filming it, I’ll have to actually finish it, otherwise people will know I’m a quitter." Genius, right?

Even if nobody watched, I figured it would be good for me to see my own progress — and if people did watch, maybe they’d laugh along with me wheezing through week three like a kettle on the boil.

Running is still hard. Some days I move with the grace of a broken shopping trolley. Some days I accidentally run so slow that my fitness tracker asks if I’ve stopped. 

But the point is, I’m doing it. Finally. Not because I magically found “discipline” or because running suddenly became easy. But because I started caring less about being good and more about just being consistent.

If you’re stuck at the beginning, thinking you’re not a “real runner” — you’re wrong. If you put one foot in front of the other slightly faster than walking pace, congratulations. You’re doing it. You’re officially one of us.

Anyway, I'm not sure where this whole running thing is going to end up, so you may as well join me for the journey of it all!