💬 Friday Thread: Encouragement
A little goes a long way
I thought I’d try something with our Friday discussion today that you all have loved before — a shoutout thread, if you’ve got a race you’re running this weekend or a new distance you’re aiming to run for the first time, or anything you’re aiming for that’s asking you to reach for more.
Let’s hear from you if you:
Need a little encouragement for a big run this weekend — ask and you shall receive 😃
Have encouragement to give, especially if you just ran something big for you recently
Tell us what you’re planning/thinking about running this weekend (or sometime soon), and I’m sure our amazing community here will have some great thoughts to pump you up and get you going.
What do you think? Let me know 😃 — Terrell
Left right left right left right and soon you’re done
I did a big thing this week ... I ran without my watch. Twice.
I've been struggling with feeling unmotivated with my running, and discouraged that I'm not as fast as I have been in the past.
I had a bad fall over a year ago, and it has taken me awhile to recover. I would say I'm 75% back, but just feeling like maybe I'll never get that 25%...
My husband - also my coach - challenged me. 'Put away your watch'. At first, I said, 'I can't do that!' (in my experience, if you say that, it's exactly the thing you need to do...).
so I did.
I've run twice this week so far. It's been glorious. I listened to my heart beat. I listened to the birds sing. I focused on the sun on my face. I enjoyed it!
I set out to run about an hour. Left at 7:48am. Ran for awhile, then I started feeling like I was done. I stopped running, pulled out my phone to check the time: 8:48. I laughed out loud!
This is my encouragement - for myself, and for you, my fellow runners. Take off your watch. Just for a couple of days :)