Perhaps this sounds counter-intuitive but our bodies can do so much more than our mind lets them at times. For most of my adult life, I couldn’t break a 10 minute mile. I never considered myself a runner, and then my mom died and I decided to do a half marathon in her honor. That began my absolute love for running. If you can run, run! There is no other cardio exercise like, and the release and meditative state it provides is an awesome natural high.
In this post I’d like to talk specifically about finding a comfortable running pace for you. I talk very frequently about the need to listen to our bodies but sometimes I still fail to do this myself. Today I was running listening to music other than my typical running music: hard house is my tracks of choice. 🙂 I was winded, couldn’t really find a pace, just overall the run was shite. I realized that I was running too slow! I’ve done this before but I fall back into old habits like everyone else. I’ll never forget the 1st time I was struggling on a run and I just took off, running faster than I thought I could, and spanked the entire run. I was shocked…so often in life our mind holds us back, telling us there’s no way we can do things. Anyway, I took off this morning and my run improved from that point.
It sounds odd but if we aren’t running at our body’s preferred pace, we are actually worker harder to slow our body down than we’d be working running at a comfortable pace for our muscles and lungs. Try it! I always say: don’t believe anything anyone says- experiment with it yourself. Now I’m saying this will always be the case. Some days I just have shit runs. But I do wonder how much sooner my running pace would’ve increased had I tried this years ago! Try it, what’s there to lose?
And for god’s sake- work with a personal trainer to achieve your goals!
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