26 Journal Prompts for Marathon Training
I know, I’m a cliche of myself sometimes with all the running journal posts, but I’m a true believer in spending some time pondering life and how I feel about the things going on in it. I joke about it, […]
I know, I’m a cliche of myself sometimes with all the running journal posts, but I’m a true believer in spending some time pondering life and how I feel about the things going on in it. I joke about it, […]
I know, I’m a cliche of myself sometimes with all the running journal posts, but I’m a true believer in spending some time pondering life and how I feel about the things going on in it. I joke about it, […]
I know, I’m a cliche of myself sometimes with all the running journal posts, but I’m a true believer in spending time pondering life and how I feel about the things going on in it. I joke about it, but […]
Both as a runner and as a coach, I think a lot about motivation. What will get me out the door to run today when the weather is crappy? How do I convince a client to keep running when they […]
The voices in my head are always yammering away during my runs. Usually, it’s pretty innocuous. I’ll be listening to a podcast and have debates with myself about the topic, or I’ll add in my (imaginary) side of the conversation. […]
I make no secret of the fact I’m terrible about running regularly when I’m not training for a race. Give me training plan and a race day and I’ll run religiously. Tell me to run just because I can? Yeah, […]
At its core, running is a pretty mindless activity. You put one foot in front of the other and repeat for between 1 minute to 10 hours. This is the reason some people hate running and find it boring. It’s […]
If you run enough races, eventually you’ll have a bad one. Maybe it didn’t go according to plan, maybe it was terrible and everything felt off. Maybe it wasn’t too terrible, but you know you could have done better. The […]
The common wisdom is to use positive mantras and affirmations when things are tough. To use positive thoughts to keep you going when you begin to struggle. To use positive energy to psych yourself up and keep going. And in […]
Awhile back, I was going through the training to become a running coach. At one point in the course, we were talking about goals and running motivation. The instructor firmly believed (and re-iterated several times) that the main goal- the […]