Running Motivation & 4 Mental Strategies For Older Runners
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มิ.ย. 2024
- As an older endurance runner, I understand the challenges of maintaining consistency. It's easy to attribute this to a lack of motivation, but there's more to it.
In this video, I share four mental strategies that have proven effective in helping the runners I coach to become more consistent and find happiness in their running, even as older endurance runners.
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Thank you Lee. I have always been active and relatively fit but never took to running. Years ago I had back surgery and it was some time before I was back to speed with my vigorous outdoor activities. I assumed I would never run as it seemed a particularly brutal
Pastime.
At age 71 I started trail running with some friends and had some really great days. I quickly got better and looked about for some guidance. Well meaning advice as to how best to get out a chair etc. weren’t much good to me. Most tips for older runners seemed directed to much younger folks and usually those with a running background.
I was running three or four days a week and enjoying it but I struggled with recovery. I became fitter but I felt like I wasn’t progressing, so I signed up for a running clinic offered by a local running shoe store.
I am very happy I did this. I learned that I was running too hard most of the time. I learned that my warmup needed to be much much longer. I am beginning to learn how to do speed work. I found out the simple joy of long easy group runs.
Last weekend I ran my first race. A sort of trail race and 16 km long with 1400 meters of vertical, it was a bit of a grunt. I finished forth in my age group. I ran with a friend and we ran our plan. Stoped only for water stops and ate something every twenty min. I kept my heart rate in my target range just below my lactate threshold. I recovered well and quickly. I am inordinately proud and have ambitions for future contests.
I will be 74 in a few weeks and I have convinced myself that I can continue to improve. lol, there seems little down side to trying.
The advice you have put out in the two videos of yours that I have seen has been spot on for me. Thank you.
Very inspiring. I am glad my videos have helped .
Good stuff this channel .
Thank you
Great info
Really enjoying my training with you Lee
Thanks Julie.