I recently signed up for a run every day
in December challenge, you don’t have to do big distances – a minimum of 3
miles or 25 minutes whichever comes first.
There are 3 main things I have re-learnt
from this experience…
1 – Team - Logging in everyday to share
my run and share in others has a great sense of achievement to it, people from
around the world, some I know, most I don’t, all encouraging, congratulating
and occasionally giving a kick up the bum, helps us be in this together even
though many of us do most of our runs on our own.
2 – Time - My ability to find 25 minutes
every day to run has surprised me and helped me realise that there is always
time for the things you ‘want’ to do. (Running round a coach park at a services
on the M4 was something I’d never thought I’d ‘want’ to do!)
3 – Action - it’s the small, quiet, repeatable
actions that make the difference, not the large on-offs
When you are training and competing it’s
about the small changes and choices you make, to your diet, to your plan, to
your attitude that makes the difference and its repeating those actions that
gives you the EDGE. They say practice
makes perfect, but actually practice makes permanent so if you are constantly
looking for the small changes to give you quality repeatable actions then you
are going to do better than the person sticking rigidly to their plan.
So think about what’s your TTA
Team – whoever makes up your team, make
sure they know your goal
Time – it’s always there you just need
to find it
Action – Practice every day your mental
strategies and mind-set development – make sure they are the right ones for you
– reading a book about what works for someone else might give you a starting
place but it’s not your answer, you
have to adapt it to who you are.
So here is to just over half way of
running every day in December, only another 15 days to go!
If you want to know more about how to
adapt and action your mental strategies then contact me at
annie@anniepage.co.uk
