Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.
The great thing about running is that you can get away to your own thoughts and get in a little bubble.
I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard.'
Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.
I am never out there just jogging for the heck of it. I never do that. I start to run with a goal in mind, whether it's a certain time or certain distance or a specific heart-rate goal, and then I am done.
I want to run until I can't run.
The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.
If I have to run to put myself in the hospital, if I have to run that hard, that's how hard I'll have to run.
With the case of running, it really is a case of get out, set yourself a distance, run it, and then do it again the next day. It's tremendously simple.
My running was very simple; it was out of myself.