Mid Life Crisis Man prior to some bollox about cricket Wrote:Ay, well here's the rub. The tricky part of running is this: a week ago, I ran 11km comfortably in 61 minutes. Today, I jogged a painful, suffering 12 km in 85 minutes... much, much slower and with considerable distress and discomfort. What's the difference? Why the drastic change in such a short span of time?
I'm not entirely sure, but I do know that when I analysed it, I did actually run it physically quite well - it was only my head that wanted to quit. My brain it seems is the weak link. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I covered this dilemma in my (now dropped off the bottom) training diary. :mad:
I found the brain wanted to quit as soon as it knew I had covered a certain mileage, even though I wanted to push for a few miles more.
My solution to get over this mental hurdle, was to forget distance and run for time. If you know you can do (say) 10k in 1 hour, but you struggle to extend that mileage in a training run, then run for 75 or 90 minutes and forget all about distance. Said brain seems to treat the time on your feet as its new goal. Amazing how it worked for me. Mileage can be worked out afterwards.
Adelaide Marathon Campaign - Week 2 of 16
