I'm normally a card-carrying exercise hater, but I recently joined a beginner walk-to-run programme. We're a few weeks in and I can already run further than I can ever remember being able to run before. Everyone is so nice, the trouble is each week I seem to be more and more at the back of the group and further behind everybody else. I can manage the running intervals, its just I can't really keep pace with the others. If I I try I can sort of keep up with the next slowest people but they keep trying to strike up conversation and I can't really chat at all as I'm having to work on regulating my breathing.
It's kind of taken the shine off the social aspect of the group - one of the reasons I wanted to start running was for the MH improving aspects of exercise, but the moment it's just making me sad that I'm on my own at the back every week. But I'm worried that if I stop the group I won't have the motivation to keep up running on my own.