Yesterday, the display counter on the treadmill was off, so I had to run by effort. And I was shocked by what I could do. Today, I chose a much higher speed, and comfortably broke a barrier I never thought I would reach.
Why do we choose to hold ourselves back?
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7 comments:
Natasha - How sad it is that very often, we hold the key to the prisons in which we lock ourselves...
I think it's fear of failure, yet when we fail to push ourselves is when we truly fail.
i think it can be very hard to tune into effort level, since so much of running is mental. try running with a heart rate monitor -- that can really take the guess work out.
See? Leave the watch home next time.
Fear. Fear that we will succeed. Fear that we won't succeed. So we chose a point of comfort and stay there.
What an interesting occurrence. We really do put limits and restrictions on everything we do. We need to somehow figure out a daily reminder to ourselves to not do that for the day.
I'm still trying to find the temperature and pace where neither my horrible-side-cramp-from-hell or my totally-kacked-up-knee kicks in and makes me stop. :-P I should probably go try again now. ;-)
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