
Mantras can be incredibly useful when you are running and even more useful when you are racing. I like to use them to help when I’m running through what I affectionately call “dark miles.” I have a few different mantras that I’ve been repeating during this training cycle. As I look towards my goal race this weekend, I’m reviewing these mantras so that I’ll be ready to use them when I need them. Here are a few of my favorites:
Essentially any positive phrase that is short enough to mutter while I’m running hard works for me. Sometimes though, the most motivational thing is to not say any phrase but to just think back on all the hard work I did to lay the ground work for a successful race. I think about the hard runs, the long runs, the ones where I wanted to quit and I didn’t. And then I tell myself to “just go.”
What do you say to yourself to help push past those hard miles?
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