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4 ways how I learned to enjoy running
Running is hard. Far more psychologically challenging than physically, in my opinion. It’s just the constant resistance to not stop, and to continue moving.
Sorry for turning this into a love story, but I used to absolutely hate running. I mean HATE. But before i educated myself on resistance training and rather just being active in general, I thought the only way to be ‘fit’ was to run. I used to force myself to go for 2 mile runs every other day, this routine would work for a maximum of a week. Yes, a week, which i would then try again in.2 weeks time. The lovely cycle. I would put on music, and just run as fast as I could, checking my phone literally every 5 seconds to see how many miles i had to go until it was over. Constant resistance in my head. I would also stop, probably 4/5 times, and definitely stop every mile, to just get rid of the constant tension and resistance i was putting myself through psychologically. Here’s the thing, stopping makes it harder. By all means slow down, but unless completely necessary, don’t come to a complete stop. It’s the whole mentallity of the end goal, which is necessary at times and can be a large driving force, but just meant all I wanted was the 2 miles. Not running for the way it made me feel, for the enjoyment of actually running itself, nothing like that.
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