Day 136 - 2 Runs, No Stats, It’s All in the Mind!

Exercise Summary:

• Sunday: 4kms, no time; no heart rate; 40 push ups (2 x 20)
• Monday: 6.6km, no time, no heart rate, 40 push ups (2 x 20)

Exercising has been a bit of a lost cause lately. No excuses really. Just … haven’t … done … it!

The lack of charging the good old Forerunner has left me a bit cross too as I have twice gone out on a run, seen it start up and then later into the run it has gone blank!

Memo to self: charge the watch!

And what is more frustrating is that it is all in the head. Andrew has a short post on this here.

The good news is it can all chnage with a new or different thought.

If everything starts with a thought and I can control my thoughts I can control how things start.

Actually, everything starts with a stimulus, generally external, and that triggers the thought. But the first thing I can control is my thought, my response or my reaction.

I can see this when I decide to go for a run.

I can see this when I set a target as to how far I’ll run and whether I am comitted to the goal - whether it the proverbial “next light pole”, or run 5 kms without stopping. I know in my head at the start how successful I’m going to be.

Funny isn’t it?

It’s all in the head.

I have the City to Surf next week (refer countdown on right hand side) and this is almost down to single figures as I write this when it once was 77-odd days away and seemed so far off in the future.

How will I go? The answer to that is another question: “How do I think I’ll go?”

• I’ll finish - yes! Easy.
• I’ll do under 70 minutes for 12 kms - yes! Anything less would be disappointing.
• Will I do under 60 minutes? Ahh, that is what I must commit to if I am to succeed.

As Henry Ford rightly said:

“If you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re right!”

Tagged as: failure, Goals, run, running, runs, success, think, thinking