1000km running history on Strava

Yesterday I finally managed to go for a run again this week (too many online meetings) and I finally passed the 1k of registered running kilometers on Strava. For a person like me this is a veritable milestone as I am not a real runner. I have to force myself to go for a run and not do something else with my time. I did a bit of running as a teenager and ran up to 15km in those early days. More I never managed as I was always going as fast as possible and I actually liked sprinting more. But at the time I was running I had a nice track through the woods I could run on with my dad so it was kind of fun. Then came university and I stopped running and all other sports as well for that matter. Then many years later after we had moved again I decided I really had to do something about my deplorable fitness state. So in 2014 I got myself a heart rate monitor and did a start to run program. I managed to keep it up until 2017 when my workload increased at the cost of my weekly running frequency. As a result I would often go only once a week or less for a run of 7,5 to 10km and at the end of 2017 I finally paid the price with a knee injury. 2017 was also the year that for one reason or another I switched from Polar Flow to Strava. So the 1000 km registered on Strava are starting from mid 2017 until today. In the period before I managed to run some 800 kilometers between 2014 and mid 2017 not registered on Strava. In the summer of 2018 I made an attempt to start running again but the weekly frequency was again too low to maintain fitness and avoid injuries so I struggled to the end of 2018 and then stopped. As I was commuting quite often to work by bike in 2019 I didn’t bother to try and pick up running again, no time to run 2 to 3 times a week anyway. And then came the covid-19 lock down in early 2020. No more commuting by bicycle and the possibility go for half hour runs in between the endless meetings just to avoid going insane. 2020 was another kind of start to run in April and near the end of the year I got some advise about how to improve my fitness from a doctor. This resulted in going from 6k runs at a high heart rate all the time to mixing it up a bit trying to run really slow but longer. In December I managed to run 10km at that reduced speed. I ran a little over 500 km in 2020 and the ambition for 2021 is to run 15 km on average each week with a year total of 750 km an doing at least one 10 km run every month. So far I am more or less on track although the cold and rain from the last weeks did set me back a little bit.