{"id":385,"date":"2020-02-03T08:11:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T08:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brendaninglefoundation.org.uk\/?p=385"},"modified":"2020-02-03T08:11:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T08:11:47","slug":"rogers-inspiring-story-in-his-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brendaninglefoundation.org.uk\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"Rogers Inspiring Story: In His own Words…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m 53 years old born in June 1967. I got married at St Thomas\u2019 church opposite the gym 30 years ago in September this year.\u00a0<\/span>I have 3 children who are all now grown up.\u00a0<\/span>I work at Supertram on the wheel lathe ( I machine the tram tyres)<\/span><\/p>\n

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In January 2017 I weighed 18 st 9.5 lbs
\nI\u2019d been wanting to lose weight for sometime but didn\u2019t have the know how or the determination. My daughter had joined weight watchers at the village hall a few months earlier and lost over 20lbs.\u00a0I hoped it could help me and was inspired to join by her success . To be honest it wasn\u2019t really my environment sat in a room full of women discussing healthy eating and weight loss issues. But I decided to give it my all and committed to it 100%. I followed the plan and with the support of everyone at the group the weight dropped off 5 st 4.5 lbs in just under a year. \u00a0I also did C25K to help me but it took me about 6 months to complete the 9 week plan .<\/p>\n

\nOver the next 6 months I ran a bit more, but my weight fluctuated.
\nIn June 2018, I got a Bakers cyst behind my knee and this unfortunately me stopped doing any exercise for 3 months! This lead me to gradually put weight back on and whilst I never gave up, I wasn\u2019t as focused and stopped following the plan properly. \u00a0Once the cyst cleared up I just didn\u2019t pick up my exercise again and slowly gained just over 2 st over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n

In Summer of 2019 I started to become aware of a running group for women down at the Ingle gym as one of my daughters friends was running with them.
\nI saw pictures on Facebook and Instagram of them going up Jenkin rd and was incredibly impressed! I\u2019d also seen posts about the interval sessions on the common on Thursdays too but held back from joining.
\nI then I saw that there would be a mens group starting up. I had a chat with a friend Andy Barker about joining and we both said we\u2019d possibly give it a go .
\nMy eldest son Jordan asked if I fancied doing concord Parkrun, I\u2019d not been running for ages but decided to give it a go. It was just before the mens group launched and I think to publicise it the women\u2019s group were out in force! You couldn\u2019t help but be impressed with the way they supported each other that day, the camaraderie between them was tremendous!<\/p>\n

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\nI had a chat with Wayne about joining the mens group after the run and although I couldn\u2019t make the first meeting I joined on the 2nd Tuesday.
\nIt was a bit of a shock when we went up Newman rd that night !! But I learned it\u2019s ok to run \/walk if you need to. It was a tough start but I was hooked. As the weeks went by I slowly improved my stamina. I started attending Thursday nights too and have really got hooked on Saturday Parkrun.
\nEveryone at the group is really supportive of each other even though most are far better runners than me they never look down on you.<\/p>\n

Weight wise, the running has really focused my mind again. I know now mindset is so important.\u00a0Since the the turn of the year I\u2019m \u00bd stone down and at my lowest since May last year.\u00a0My goal is to get myself in to the healthy BMI range and with amount of running I\u2019m doing combined with healthy food choices I\u2019m sure its attainable.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m 53 years old born in June 1967. I got married at St Thomas\u2019 church opposite the gym 30 years ago in September this year.\u00a0I have 3 children who are all now grown up.\u00a0I work at Supertram on the wheel lathe ( I machine the tram tyres) In January 2017 I weighed 18 st 9.5 lbs I\u2019d been wanting to lose weight for sometime but didn\u2019t have the know how or the determination. My daughter had joined weight watchers at the village hall a few months earlier and lost over 20lbs.\u00a0I hoped it could help me and was inspired to join by her success . To be honest it wasn\u2019t really my environment sat in a room full of women discussing healthy eating and weight loss issues. But I decided to give it my all and committed to it 100%. I followed the plan and with the support of everyone at the group the weight dropped off 5 st 4.5 lbs in just under a year. \u00a0I also did C25K to help me but it took me about 6 months to complete the 9 week plan . Over the next 6 months I ran a bit more, but my weight fluctuated. In June 2018, I got a Bakers cyst behind my knee and this unfortunately me stopped doing any exercise for 3 months! This lead me to gradually put weight back on and whilst I never gave up, I wasn\u2019t as focused and stopped following the plan properly. \u00a0Once the cyst cleared up I just didn\u2019t pick up my exercise again and slowly gained just over 2 st over the next 12 months. In Summer of 2019 I started to become aware of a running group for women down at the Ingle gym as one of my daughters friends was running with them. I saw pictures on Facebook and Instagram of them going up Jenkin rd and was incredibly impressed! I\u2019d also seen posts about the interval sessions on the common on Thursdays too but held back from joining. I then I saw that there would be a mens group starting up. I had a chat with a friend Andy Barker about joining and we both said we\u2019d possibly give it a go . My eldest son Jordan asked if I fancied doing concord Parkrun, I\u2019d not been running for ages but decided to give it a go. It was just before the mens group launched and I think to publicise it the women\u2019s group were out in force! You couldn\u2019t help but be impressed with the way they supported each other that day, the camaraderie between them was tremendous! I had a chat with Wayne about joining the mens group after the run and although I couldn\u2019t make the first meeting I joined on the 2nd Tuesday. It was a bit of a shock when we went up Newman rd that night !! But I learned it\u2019s ok to run \/walk if you need to. It was a tough start but I was hooked. As the weeks went by I slowly improved my stamina. I started attending Thursday nights too and have really got hooked on Saturday Parkrun. Everyone at the group is really supportive of each other even though most are far better runners than me they never look down on you. Weight wise, the running has really focused my mind again. I know now mindset is so important.\u00a0Since the the turn of the year I\u2019m \u00bd stone down and at my lowest since May last year.\u00a0My goal is to get myself in to the healthy BMI range and with amount of running I\u2019m doing combined with healthy food choices I\u2019m sure its attainable. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brendaninglefoundation.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brendaninglefoundation.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brendaninglefoundation.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brendaninglefoundation.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brendaninglefoundation.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brendaninglefoundation.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"http:\/\/www.brendaninglefoundation.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brendaninglefoundation.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brendaninglefoundation.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brendaninglefoundation.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}