This is how my internal conversation went on my first run for five months.
Child: Whoop, whoop, wheeee, let's goooooooo
Parent: There are rules. We will obey the rules
Adult: Having asked for expert advice and listened to it, it seems it would be a good thing to go with that.
Child: Pavement. We're doing pavement? Sulks
Parent: We will obey the rules
Adult: Just for a bit, hey, while we see how it goes
Ankle: Help.
Parent: We will obey the rules
Child: Wheee, we can run for miles, let's keep going. We could go all the way to the end and back, it's only 30 minutes there
Adult: Um, it's a 30 minute in total run we're doing. Remember the whole not run for 5 months thing.
Child: sulks
Parent: There are rules
Adult: Tell you what, we've never run this footpath but reckon it goes to the Sett Valley trail and we're on one of the two minute walks, how about we walk down there and then do the trail
Child: Yeay, new places, yeah, mud, yeay.
Child: Hill, I'm being allowed to run up a hill.
Parent: There are rules
Adult: yep, three minute run, two minutes walk, we're walking now. Tell you what though, slow trot to the traffic lights then we can bound home.
Child: Bounces
Ankle: Weeps a little
