(Ok, this was apparently a blog post I wrote some time ago but never published. Hmm... I'll publish it today then! :) Spoiler alert – I did get on the team of facilitators….)
I very recently started running. I've been doing aerobics and other group activities as exercise earlier, but this spring I decided that I needed to start running to be able to get the exercise into my life even if there was no scheduled event that fit my time, or if was travelling or squeezing the exercise in while my husband put the kids to sleep and so on. So I did. I bought new shoes, and got myself out there. I didn't do very well. It took me more than 8 minutes to run one km, and as a matter of fact I don't even think I ran one km without pausing at least once. I don’t really remember, because it is not important for me to remember that.
Today I have a tempo of approximately 6:30 min/km, and 5 km is not a problem for me anymore.
Speeding up and getting more and more distance into my training was not that difficult, once I put my mind to it. But, I really needed to step out of my comfort zone, just to use an old cliché. It was not comfortable to run faster and longer. Not comfortable at all. I think comfortable is to sit in the couch in the evening, or outside on the porch in summertime with a glass of wine. But running - not comfortable! However, I had set my goal for myself only, and I wanted to reach it. So I did. Today I have moved that target, to run further and faster. And I kind of like running. It is still not comfortable, but the times when it is the most uncomfortable it usually means (to me) that I am improving.
I want to make that an analogy to testing. I happened to start testing some eight years ago. Or actually, I don’t think I understood that I was testing, but one day I noticed in the corporate phone book that someone had given me the title “function tester”. Anyhow, that was kind of an eye opener for me to start a career as a tester. I started looking for job ads for different testers. After a few years I actually applied for a job as test lead, and through that I got into testing even more. Before that testing was a job, but now it became a life style. My eyes and interest turned to the context driven testing community. One thing led to another and last year I got an opportunity to go to Let’s Test 2013. Wow. That was a life changing event. Maybe I’ll give you more on that some other time…
So, this year I am challenging myself to learn more and more about testing. I want to improve! I want to become awesome! I want to change the ways I do things, and I definitely want to change the way my corp do things… I need to start with myself. In an earlier blog post I noted down some ideas on want I want for myself. I think they are still valid. I have registered for Lets Test 2014, and one thing I really want to do is to try to get on the team of facilitators. It would be scary, and uncomfortable, but hey, I know from running that getting out of that comfort zone is when I’m improving. And since I want to improve - Let’s do it!
I very recently started running. I've been doing aerobics and other group activities as exercise earlier, but this spring I decided that I needed to start running to be able to get the exercise into my life even if there was no scheduled event that fit my time, or if was travelling or squeezing the exercise in while my husband put the kids to sleep and so on. So I did. I bought new shoes, and got myself out there. I didn't do very well. It took me more than 8 minutes to run one km, and as a matter of fact I don't even think I ran one km without pausing at least once. I don’t really remember, because it is not important for me to remember that.
Today I have a tempo of approximately 6:30 min/km, and 5 km is not a problem for me anymore.
Speeding up and getting more and more distance into my training was not that difficult, once I put my mind to it. But, I really needed to step out of my comfort zone, just to use an old cliché. It was not comfortable to run faster and longer. Not comfortable at all. I think comfortable is to sit in the couch in the evening, or outside on the porch in summertime with a glass of wine. But running - not comfortable! However, I had set my goal for myself only, and I wanted to reach it. So I did. Today I have moved that target, to run further and faster. And I kind of like running. It is still not comfortable, but the times when it is the most uncomfortable it usually means (to me) that I am improving.
I want to make that an analogy to testing. I happened to start testing some eight years ago. Or actually, I don’t think I understood that I was testing, but one day I noticed in the corporate phone book that someone had given me the title “function tester”. Anyhow, that was kind of an eye opener for me to start a career as a tester. I started looking for job ads for different testers. After a few years I actually applied for a job as test lead, and through that I got into testing even more. Before that testing was a job, but now it became a life style. My eyes and interest turned to the context driven testing community. One thing led to another and last year I got an opportunity to go to Let’s Test 2013. Wow. That was a life changing event. Maybe I’ll give you more on that some other time…
So, this year I am challenging myself to learn more and more about testing. I want to improve! I want to become awesome! I want to change the ways I do things, and I definitely want to change the way my corp do things… I need to start with myself. In an earlier blog post I noted down some ideas on want I want for myself. I think they are still valid. I have registered for Lets Test 2014, and one thing I really want to do is to try to get on the team of facilitators. It would be scary, and uncomfortable, but hey, I know from running that getting out of that comfort zone is when I’m improving. And since I want to improve - Let’s do it!
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