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Listening to your own lies about running and your body and learning to tell the difference between slacking off and needing a rest day is very important. I think sometimes as runners we get stuck in the training lock and I am guilty of this myself. I love having a training plan to stick to, but sometimes I can be too rigid and I need to learn to back off a little and allow some flexibility in because rest can be just as important as a run!
oh i know it! even when i can be ‘smart’ and tell other people they need to opt for the rest, it’s always more tricky taking/listening to our own advice, right?!!? but i too have learned that in the long haul flexibility always wins out. 🙂
Good: Just one more interval (and then one more, one more, one more).
Bad: But…(wah wah!) this might (wah wah!) hurrrrrt!!! (In the tired, sore, ‘painful’ 5K way)
Dangerous: Who needs salt tabs? BWAHAHAHA!
Also? I would *love* to see a running skeleton. I’d totally be on board with that shirt!
Listening to your own lies about running and your body and learning to tell the difference between slacking off and needing a rest day is very important. I think sometimes as runners we get stuck in the training lock and I am guilty of this myself. I love having a training plan to stick to, but sometimes I can be too rigid and I need to learn to back off a little and allow some flexibility in because rest can be just as important as a run!
oh i know it! even when i can be ‘smart’ and tell other people they need to opt for the rest, it’s always more tricky taking/listening to our own advice, right?!!? but i too have learned that in the long haul flexibility always wins out. 🙂
I’m wondering if I’m lying to myself when I say, “Yeah, I’ll be able to run after surgery…and it’ll be a good thing and not dangerous at all.”
I probably am. But I might just listen to the lie.
ALWAYS listen to that lie…i’m proof that you can believe your way back to being a runner! stay strong and good luck…will be thinking of you!
Oh so many of ’em…
Good: Just one more interval (and then one more, one more, one more).
Bad: But…(wah wah!) this might (wah wah!) hurrrrrt!!! (In the tired, sore, ‘painful’ 5K way)
Dangerous: Who needs salt tabs? BWAHAHAHA!
Also? I would *love* to see a running skeleton. I’d totally be on board with that shirt!
so funny how our brains can be fooled time and time AGAIN with the same, “one more” lie. 😉