Doorgaan naar hoofdcontent

Each run should be FUN

 Hi y'all,

Running is a gift and gifts are supposed to bring you joy, a smile and little love in your heart. With the month of giving dawning upon us I wanted to share a little of what I think running should be and why. 

Running should be something you look forward to, not dread. It should be something you want to do not have to. Running in all it's weirdness really oughta make you carry a smile from ear to ear each and every time. Why? because running should bring you joy. It really really should.

Now I know it sometimes isn't easy to find joy in pushing your body over and through the pain threshold and way out of your comfort zone. It hurts to run long distances and depending on who you ask the pain can hit anywhere between mile 4 and way way above that. Pain can't be fun is something I can hear you think but as twisted as I might sound: you're wrong. Ofcourse I really don't like chafing, blisters and cramp but the fun begins when you realize that these sorts of pains can be ignored, you can run through them and you are able to do so much more than you think you can. The fun begins when you overcome yourself and run your first 10k, your first 10 miles, your first half marathon and finally your first full marathon. That sense of accomplishment, of pride is something that you'll never forget. The unrealness that it really was you who did it and that you are actually that strong that is more than fun. It is what makes running so addictive.

But there is so much more. Running isn't always easy and the thing that always helps me through the tough ones is this thought: If I need to walk bits and pieces than I will. There's no running police, I can't get disbarred for running 5 miles per hour and doing that for about 5hrs. If I can find and keep my smile because I walk bits and pieces and enjoy my time on the road than I am as much a runner as anyone out there. 

So run and enjoy the little things like: the sun on your face, fighting the elements, taking in nature's beauty, singing along to the songs on your playlist, the relaxing sounds of your feet touching the ground in constant intervals, the thought of a great meal. Whatever you do just enjoy your time out in the open air. Because in all there is, it truely is a gift to be able to run and we must never forget that. 

So this december I would like to ask you to give yourself the biggest gift you can give yourself and that is YOU-time. Grab your running shoes and spent 3 days a week outside on them. No matter your pace, no matter your distance and just have fun. Above all, HAVE FUN. Find yourself enjoying that (really) early sunset or maybe even that little late sunrise. Work and personal situation permitting try a lunchbreak on your running shoes. Embrace the rain, enjoy the crisp wintery air, stop and breathe every now and again and just enjoy the gift you alone can give yourself: a good run.

That's it for now, until we read again

As always, Love Marlies

Reacties

Een reactie posten

Populaire posts van deze blog

The will to succeed....

Hi y'all, The world is filled with wishes, dreams, hopes and fears and I'm happy this tiny orb has all of m and yet that longing, that need, that hope for things to happen or maybe even the fear for them won't ever make anything happen. A dream alone will get you through a dark time but it won't make the night go away. Hope for better times will provide you with some sort of elastic band that might stretch a little further but it won't get you over that gap. A wish is nothing more than a whisper over candle light or a shooting star blasted into a universe that knows no sound and fears are the seeimingly unbreakable ties your mind has you wrapped in. The world won't give you anything, the universe can't hear you. People might and hopefully your mind will. Did you ever experience the absolute need to do something, no doubts nor fears about weather or not you're able to? That is exactly how I felt the first time I started training for a marathon. I wanted...
Een reactie posten
Meer lezen

Breaking taboos: The five stages of Runner's trots

Hi y'all After yet another week of teaching and dealing with normal life it seems to become a little easier to combine it all. I wrap my running schedule around my commuter distances to work and that helps. If I'm not running than I'm riding my bicycle to and from work. It's about an 11 or 13 km bike ride depending on the route I take. So switching biking to work for running back makes up for the 11km on Thursday. Now the title of this blog should be warning enough. So if you do not enjoy the dirty parts of running than by all means...STOP READING RIGHT NOW AND GO ABOUT YOUR NORMAL BUSINESS!! Good for you. Even after a fair warning you have decided to stick with me and read on. As you are well aware of I'm running for MLDS (CLICK HERE TO DONATE) a foundation that fights to create funding to help people with stomach/liver/bowel issues. Now after the past few weeks I figured let's see what is happening to me on those 8km-something-runs when I am in dire need of...
Een reactie posten
Meer lezen

The magic of numbers

Hi Y'all, "Anything in life can be measured" someone once told me. I think it was a mathmatician who said it and probably the love of my life since he is one. At that time I didn't think much of it but lately that quote keeps popping up in my head. You know the thing is I am once again completely mesmerized by my second love which is running. I am completely in it's grips and I surrendered to it like cookie monster would to cookies. Right now all I can think of and all I really want to do is run my own runs, go to classes on running, talk to other runners about running and coach other runners. There is nothing else I seriously want to do. I can't read anything unless it's running related and the only thing I feel good doing when I'm not running, coaching or preparing classes is lying on my couch watching Netflix wondering where and when to plan and plot and scheme our next vacation that most definately should include a run or stunning nature so I c...
Een reactie posten
Meer lezen