In other sports like cycling, there are highs and lows, energy ebbs and flows. With running it just gets worse and worse from the first step to the last. How far you can run is determined by how much deep into the suck you’re willing to go.
For a normal run, I sure hope that isn’t how you feel. Especially on a cold run in the morning, the first mile or two are often the worst because I’m still sleepy and stiff!
But for a race? Yeah, that’s pretty accurate. There should be zero left in the tank by the end.
I’ve been running for almost 20 years now, and honestly I’m giving cycling more priority now. I can snack, be social with others, and view a lot more scenic routes than running, all while saving my knees. I’ll take a 100mi bike ride over training for a marathon any day of the year.
I absolutely don’t relate. I go through ebbs and flows 100%.
I go from hurting and feeling like shit to feeling high on life and everything is angelic to wanting to quit
In other sports like cycling, there are highs and lows, energy ebbs and flows. With running it just gets worse and worse from the first step to the last. How far you can run is determined by how much deep into the suck you’re willing to go.
For a normal run, I sure hope that isn’t how you feel. Especially on a cold run in the morning, the first mile or two are often the worst because I’m still sleepy and stiff!
But for a race? Yeah, that’s pretty accurate. There should be zero left in the tank by the end.
Definitely disagree with this, unless you’re running every single run hard from the very first step.
I’ve been running for almost 20 years now, and honestly I’m giving cycling more priority now. I can snack, be social with others, and view a lot more scenic routes than running, all while saving my knees. I’ll take a 100mi bike ride over training for a marathon any day of the year.
I don’t feel this. Maybe run a bit slower?
I absolutely don’t relate. I go through ebbs and flows 100%. I go from hurting and feeling like shit to feeling high on life and everything is angelic to wanting to quit
Agree with this
So you don’t pretend that terrorists kidnapped your child and you’re running along Parisian rooftops to catch them??
Reminds me of that UFC fighter saying “leave my family alone” in the cage hahah. Scariest shit of all time.
How far/fast I can run depends entirely on how long I can maintain a “running after terrorists on a Parisian rooftop” fiction in my head.
That just might get me through a marathon
When apps were still a novelty, there was one that would track your run and play music. Every few minutes, it would make you run from zombies.
Getting into a flow-state largely resolves this problem.