The slow run

Sometimes I just don’t feel like going for a run, I just don’t.

Although I know it would feel great in the end, although I know it will make me feel so much better, although it’s the good choice: good for my mental health, good for my physical health. But still it’s so damn hard to get dressed and go out the door.

My mind makes up a dozen reasons not to do it. It’s too hot, it’s too cold, I’m too tired, I don’t have the time, I would rather do something else or I’m so busy with more important things.

The usual hack with booking a date and time, establishing a habit and sticking to it doesn’t work for me. So then what? What’s the hack?

I just did it before writing this. I signed up for 2 marathons. Competitions get my juices flowing. They give me something to look forward to … and more importantly to train for.

I can’t just not train and do well in prime time at the official run. I’ll bleed my lungs out and fail and I don’t like to fail. I want to enjoy my run, to see all those nice views from the middle of the closed road, to see those smiling faces cheering for each of us, to go past that finish line and feel the adrenaline, the adrenaline of the last kilometer, the satisfaction of having done it.

I like the thrill, the people, the closed roads, that unique feeling at the end, that craving for more. For that I can work, I can work hard, go past not wanting to, not liking to, not having time. I then make time, I prioritize, I need to do it, it’s not something I could or not do and it’s just the same, nope, it’s important and I need to do it now, I have a deadline.

Not sure if other people find this useful, please let me know. For me this is how I make myself train, it motivates me and it just works.

Peace out and run. Run slowly or run fast, whatever you do, enjoy!(it too shall pass)