On Your Mark...

Lydia details her struggles with fomo, comparison, and spiraling as it relates to running. She also shares about how she has learned to tackle them and get herself back on track.

After being discharged from the hospital, I found myself in this weird limbo. Exercise and school were my life and I wasn't supposed to exercise and it was summer break, so no school. I did have two part time jobs- one at an ice cream shop and the other at a bakery- but for someone who likes to have my day fully scheduled, there was still a lot of unaccounted time. I tried to take up some new hobbies; the ones that landed well (initially) were: pottery, weeding, picking up tr

The path towards diagnosis. Lydia continues to detail her experience from beginning of April to mid-May 2021