This morning when I woke up, I doddled for a little bit dreading running a 5k this morning. Finally, I convinced myself and got dressed for the run.
Running is such a mental thing for me when I'm running for distance. I use some of my educational background on how the brain works and use chunking of 5 minute intervals to coach myself to the end. It seems to be working, because I coached myself to the end of the 5K and finished in 37:37! For being my first time ever running that distance, I felt it was ok. Now I have plenty of time to improve upon that time.
Running has become my new therapy. I was going to wait until Thanksgiving to run a 5K, but since I can already run the distance, I'm going to find some local races to run in the next couple of weeks.
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