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documenting my running era
one run at a time 🏃‍♀️

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2018 me would genuinely not believe that this is me.

Back then, I couldn’t imagine myself being someone who would run, lift, compete, or willingly sign up for something like HYROX.

I spent so many years thinking I needed to be smaller to feel better about myself. I thought if I lost enough weight, got lean enough, looked a certain way, then maybe I’d finally feel confident. Maybe I’d stop comparing myself to everyone else. Maybe I’d finally feel like I was enough.

And the funny thing is, I eventually became some of those “leaner” versions of myself. There are pictures in this carousel where I was at my smallest.

And I still didn’t feel good enough.

I was still insecure. Still comparing. Still convinced there was something wrong with me. Still thinking everyone else belonged more than I did.

I thought changing my body would change how I felt about myself.

It didn’t.

What changed was when I stopped asking my body to be smaller and started asking it to do more.

I started running.
I started lifting.
I started training.
I started pushing myself into spaces I never thought I belonged in.

And somewhere along the way, my goal changed from “how much weight can I lose?” to “what am I capable of?”

And now I’m here.

I finished a fucking HYROX.

The girl who once couldn’t imagine herself being an athlete is now running, pushing sleds, carrying weights, doing burpees and crossing a HYROX finish line.

And that means so much more to me than any number on a weighing scale ever could.

Because this isn’t really a transformation from “fat to fit.”

It’s a transformation from “I’m not good enough” to “let’s see what I can do.”

I still have insecure days. I still have things about myself that I’m learning to love. I don’t magically wake up feeling confident every morning.

But now I know something I didn’t know in 2018:

My body was never the thing holding me back. I was just never given a reason to believe in what it could do.

So this one’s for every version of me who thought she was less than.

You were never less than.

You just hadn’t met this version of yourself yet. 🤍

2018 me would be fucking speechless. by @runwika

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13 days ago

Note to self: Sometimes running slower is the best stress buster.
#running #fyp #asics #marathon taken in Kharghar by @runwika

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19 days ago

Manifesting less drama in my hooks and more consistency in my runs. 🙏 by @runwika

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2 months ago

HELOOO I AM BACKKK!!!!
I felt that I needed to learn a lottt before I came here yapping about it… I did a 5k ydayyyyy and I feel I have made a lot of progress over the last few monthsss

So I compiled this carousel to like talk about it…
Still onto making content!!! Pls post your questions on captions so maybe I can like make something about that??? by @runwika

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4 months ago

Posting this feels scarier than the run itself… by @runwika

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7 months ago