19/10/2026
Instagram: “I went for a run 🏃🏼♀️”
Reality: 35 minutes of overthinking, questioning my fitness, mentally organising the family dinner, hearing babies cry in my head and convincing myself I was dying 😂
Social media has a funny way of glamourising things that are actually pretty bloody hard.
We see people running 5Ks, 10Ks, half marathons and making it look effortless. What we don’t see is the self-doubt, the walking breaks, the heavy breathing or the mental battle just to get out the door.
And it’s so easy to compare yourself to someone else’s highlight reel and feel like what you’re doing isn’t enough.
But whether you run for 5 minutes, 15 minutes or 45 minutes, it’s STILL an achievement. Whether you stop to walk 10 times or don’t stop at all, you’ve still shown up for yourself.
You don’t need to feel motivated, confident or even particularly good at something to give it a go.
I’m trying to remind myself of that too, especially when it’s so easy to compare my current fitness to where I used to be.
Sometimes just getting out the door is the biggest achievement and that was me today ❤️
And a little reminder that there’s usually a lot more going on behind the photos you see on here than you realise 🫶
L x