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How to Build Mental Strength in Running
Mental strength in running isn’t discipline or gritting your teeth through mile 20. It’s consistency. It’s running when you don’t feel like it, when the easy option is to stay on the sofa. The weather is bad, but you run anyway. That is how you build mental strength, and it’s also how you use it.
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Running Motivation: Setting a New Challenge
I love running. I love how it makes me feel, the health benefits, the sense of achievement. But I’ve found it isn’t enough. I need additional motivation to do something I love, and I don’t know why. I think it’s just the way my head works. When I want to learn something, I do much
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Run Consistently: What Made the Difference
For years I wanted to run consistently. I struggled with motivation and became a master at excuses until eventually even I realised how silly they were and stopped making excuses. I discovered it was really about priorities, mindset and identity. Priorities Years ago, there was a gym at my work and my desk was right
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Running Habits: Stick to the Plan
I was a stop-start, intermittent runner for 15 years. I’d start a training programme and stop a few weeks later having missed most of my sessions. Or I’d sign up for a run and overtrain. Or not train at all. The pattern was consistent in its inconsistency. Building a running habit felt impossible. I was
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Knowing the Risks and Doing it Anyway
When you’re the only one who knows. You know the moment when you say something and are made to feel crazy, or stupid. You feel misunderstood. But, even worse, the assumption is frustrating. You know the arguments because you’ve heard them before. More than that, you’ve done your research and you know without being told.
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How to Stop Pushing Things to Tomorrow
Continually saying ‘I’ll do it tomorrow’ is exhausting. Right? It’s a familiar cycle. You tell yourself, ‘This time I’ll do it’. You clear your desk. Make a plan. Your motivation feels like it’s going to deliver. Then life happens. Work is busy. You’re exhausted. You tell yourself, ‘I’ll do it tomorrow’. That’s the ‘putting it
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