Imagine being so fit...

… that if someone asked you to run a 10k right now, you could do it without a second thought.

That was the caption on a Facebook Reel I saw earlier today.

18 months after I started getting up off the sofa and doing some exercise I can.

I occasionally choose to do it as a race so that I can get a medal and an official time but usually it is just for fun when the mood takes me. And I already forget what an achievement it is.

I don’t say this to brag. I’m slow by comparison to a lot of runners and so, perhaps because it’s too easy to compare yourself to other people, so I don’t consider myself to be particularly fit.

Last week marked my first anniversary of doing CrossFit. In the sessions I attend I tend to be amongst the slowest or lift the lightest weights. I don’t see myself as strong, fit and capable.

But my CrossFit coach (and other class members) tell me that there has been a huge difference between what I used to be able to do and what I can now do.

If I look at my running times then I can see that I’m getting faster and can run further.

I just lack perspective about it all. And maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe it keeps me motivated. Maybe it keeps me humble. Maybe it keeps me pushing to improve.

But sometimes, like today when I decided to write this, it is good to take a step back, properly look at what you can do, and realise that you are fit enough to do things that other people might find extraordinary, including past you.