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So much love. This is such a huge area of interest for me and you write so freaking well about it. It’s so interesting the mind games that actually go on during a race. Yesterday I was following this girl..and for some reason I just knew that she was going to crack and I could take her. I don’t know if it was her body language, my basic instincts or her nervousness at the start. But I just waited calmly for the opportune moment. I always feel that my mind lets my body down! I agree that the worst pain is in knowing that you could have physically given more, but your mind couldn’t hack it. Therefore I’m a regular in the medical tent, mostly spewing and a couple of times passing out. Not much fun at the time 😉 Again..so much love and hope you have a great weekend!
haha….a med tent regular, eh? well i think that answers ur question of whether or not u gave it ur all mentally AND otherwise. 😛 glad u cracked that chick in the race and blew by her too. 🙂
I ran a 21 min marathon PR last year and was mad because I mentally was pretty weak – bitching the whole time about how the marathon was too long and I hated it and was never doing one again. I missed a 10K PR last weekend by 9 sec but gave it my all and mentally was pretty good and I was pretty pleased. The mental aspect of running is basically all of running for me. Putting in the work is pretty much 2nd nature for me, but getting my head in the game requires some work.
okay, while i’m ALL about wanting to be a ‘gamer’ you DO have to at least give urself credit for the massive PR. take the fact that u recognize that u weren’t doing the best job mentally and then imagine how much better u’ll do for the next PR! that said, way to be a baller on that 10k…sometimes i’m more proud of the workouts/races where i really push past the suffering more than the ones where i feel ‘on’ and get super times. 🙂
I had gotten pretty behind on my Google reader, and just read through a few of your posts. As I read each one, I found myself nodding along in agreement – especially the one about being a runner no matter what distance you race and this one.
Mental toughness is the part I’m really trying to work on – it’s always been my weakness. I hope to read through some of the links you included in this post so I can try to improve that area of my training!
aww, u are too sweet and glad u are enjoying getting caught up on my posts!! i’m glad i’m able to hold ur interest a bit. 😉 hehe
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