Running has been described as a mental sport. While your body must be fit enough to run, when it comes to completing long distance runs or holding a hard pace in a race, it’s really your brain that plays the deciding role. It always amazes me how easy it is for my brain to derail a…
Tag: mental strength
Tips for surviving stressful times
This has been a challenging week. Jones has been in the middle of quarter finals. Shoo has had a rough week with his soccer team and then one of his past teachers passed away suddenly. And, well, I can’t even talk about the other things ’cause you’d find me hiding a corner somewhere… But it’s Friday…
Sometimes I hate running
Yes, sometimes the last thing I want to do is put on my shoes and go out the door. It doesn’t matter if my last run was awesome or awful. And it doesn’t always matter if the weather is perfect or gross. Sometimes I just don’t want to run. For me, that’s the hardest part…
Maintaining focus
Last year, I set a goal to run 13 half marathons in 79 days. Why? To “moon up” in Half Fanatics. I figured that I’d run 13 half marathons in 2013, how hard would it be to run 13 in 79 days? (And yes, I realize it’s kind of an arbitrary goal, but aren’t many…