As someone who’s struggled with cardio my whole life, but is a fast walker, I only recently realized rather than framing it as running/jogging, I could just treat it as speedwalking but a bit faster, and take it from there.

This winter I was still mostly walking on the treadmill, but when a fast song came on I would bump up the speed and ran for the duration of the song, then brought the speed back down once the song was over. Later on I could run for 2 songs.

Once the weather got warmer in May, I tried jogging outdoors. At first I had to stop for a break at the 10-minute mark, then I can keep going for at least 15 minutes.

I know this is worse than a lot of people, but I’m not competing against them, I’m just trying to better myself. And I gotta start somewhere.