The past few weeks, I've been meeting up with my friend Annie for weekly runs down one of our favorite local trails. She's training for the Marine Corps Marathon and although I can't run the long runs with her, I'm hoping to help her during her "short" runs throughout the week. We started at 3 and 4 miles, we're now at 6 miles and next week we're running 7 miles. She inspires me how she works full time, maintains awesome friendships, is married to a great guy, spends time with family and still fits in time for her longs runs!
But she got to asking, "what do you do when you're tired and you want to stop?"
I got to thinking and I fortunately LOVE running. I think of it as a release from stress and all the worries in my world. But let's be honest, sometimes running for 1+ hour(s) is the last thing I want to do. But my trick is that I lace up and GO!
One of my MCRRC coaches always said, "just get through the first 10 minutes". And I find it to be so true. Usually the first 10 minutes, my body aches, my joints hurt...I just hate it! But after 10 minutes, I find my breathing, get into my groove and zone out.
Try it! Give yourself 10 minutes and usually you are so thankful you did it!
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