I don't even know how to start this.

OK so I was having a rough morning, and wanted to do something fun that I had been looking forward to and I felt like the guided runs that this subreddit recommended would be perfect. I already try to run when I'm feeling down as is so I figured doing a new fun run would be even better!

And it was... just didn't expect to get emotional during it. Lol. Dang you coach Bennet

So I started running right and he comes on and starts telling me to "go slow. Slow pace. Feel good. Keep it easy." So I'm like ok he wants us warming up. And I slow it down to as slow as I was running when I started this fitness journey crap. Coolio 😎 just groovin.

Then he comes on later and says to keep it goin smooth. "Slow. Just relax. Rest. Feel good." ... OK great. A little boring but he's saying that "not all runs are the same". ... what? Excuse me sir I'm just trying to workout I don't need you blowing my mind right now. Watchu mean I don't need to be in pain and dying with every run?

Around the 10 minute mark he starts to say "OK now I'm gonna remind you that this run is for you to feel good. And if that means slowing down then back off. If that means staying at this pace then go ahead and stick with it. But if feeling good means pushing yourself", and when he said that I got my little evil grin and I felt my eyebrows furrowing and I started to pick up the pace, "then push yourself but that's not what this run is about and sometimes to feel good you need to relax and rest" and honestly I don't remember the rest because I had already gone back to my slow 13 minute pace with tears in my eyes cuz muthafucka just told me that it's ok to not push myself!? Like what. All I feel I do it push myself. Why this coach over here handing out free therapy sessions while I'm tryin to get my sweat on? Dang you coach Bennet x2!!

But also... Whoops coach Bennet I didn't listen x2. Lol.

He came back on at the 2 minute mark and said to finish the run strong... so I sprinted. 😁 THEN I had to continue running another half mile cuz I wasn't home yet cuz I had been doing that slow ass pace the whole time lol.

I was then instructed to take a pic at the end of my run and share it because the end of my run could help motivate someone to start theirs.

So here's hoping that someone out there will get up and start movin and groovin cuz of this stupid post. Or maybe you'll give this coach Bennet guy a chance. He seems like a good dude. Do you think he'll be my dad? Am I older than him? ... doesn't matter.