As a runner you know that working hard is so important. But hard work is worth more than just being fast…
If you try 80% of the time give a real quality effort, that shows and proves to you what really is possible, versus what you think might be possible. Because hard work gives you the chance to surprise yourself, with your new capabilities. Training throughout those colds winter months, adhering to the training plan, finding reasons to go out and do the session rather than the excuses to stay home.
Plus it has a side effect working hard: it will help you to keep that attitude as you progress, leading to that desire that drive to seek improvement. Imagine for a second looking back at your running history, and you see the difficult choices you have taken in the past. You went out even though it was late at night, everyone else thought you are nuts. You went to the track even though it started to rain, you did a long run even though it would have been a perfect day to just stay indoors. What have you done? You have created a history that makes it difficult to settle for less.
Means to simply run the same route or participate the same race suddenly doesn’t seem to be exiting anymore. Next thing you start to google for race events you never even heard of before, involving distances that you didn’t envision you would be looking at less even participating in.
Hard run sessions, hard hill repeats.
Looking at your run diary, and realizing you haven’t skipped a session in months. You chose the more challenging route, the more difficult marathon all those moments consolidated into a strong base that meant more than any medal you might have gotten.
Why is that… we need no research to answer that. It is that fuzzy delicious feeling of confidence, that mixture of hidden pride that you get through hard work and persistence.
You valued your efforts to try and do hard things more than opinions of others, or at the risk of failing, having a did not finish behind your name. You didn’t cheat, you didn’t shy away from the hardship.
Hard work in running, is scarce. And scarcity is something valuable. It is so precious it sets you apart from all others.SHOWNOTES:
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Brain Training For Runners': Your Mental Guide To Better Running.
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