Helping you even more with those 2 minutes
As you try to run your two minutes, these thoughts will likely go off on a loud speaker in your head:
- Why am I doing this?
- This is pointless.
- I hate this.
- I'm not a runner, I'm a walker.
- Not everyone can be a runner.
- I must look ridiculous.
- There's no dignity in running.
- I'm too old to start running.
- This is hard.
Think of these thoughts as disturbances. That's all they are. Work through them. It's just 2 minutes. You can do it. You will do it. This week.
Use these thoughts if you need counter action:
- I'm doing this because I know it will feel good, eventually.
- Though I think this is pointless now, it's not pointless to use a body if I have one.
- I hate this now, but this now is not forever.
- I can be a runner and a walker.
- Everyone with working legs and feet can be a runner. And some other people.
- I may look ridiculous. Who cares?
- There's no dignity in running. Dignity is overrated.
- I'm too old to start running. It's never too late to get healthy.
- This is hard. And I get stronger by the minute.
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7 comments:
Ooh. I'm almost inspired to join you....
xxx
Du är så jävla bra Emi!
/Carin
THANK YOU.
When I started running two years ago (about then with about 45kg overweight and got the colour of a stoplight in my face after 2 minutes) I decided that all people looking at me where impressed, as in "wow, Shes really trying to do something good for herself" or "wow, I wish I could run too" or inspireing "wow, if she can run without looking as a complete idiot, then so can I" AND; It worked!!
Now (with "only" 20kg overweight) i run 10k without walking even if I'm still damn tired afterwards and not completely sure I actually like running that far ;)
Best of luck to all of you, If I can do it anyone can, and thank you Emi for your wonderful blog!
//Liza
carin & Liza, THANK YOU. Natasha, get on the train!
Why am I doing this?
- I had been a "runner" about 10 years ago, I even finished 8 marathons and it was damned easy to do it that time, then I broke a leg and started a fast way down to fat and lazyness;
This is pointless.
- I'm sure it isn not;
I hate this.
- Not really hate, I don't like doing it!!
I'm not a runner, I'm a walker.
- I love to feel myself as a runner, but I must onestly say I'm a walker or at least a fast walker;
Not everyone can be a runner.
- Ahaha! Not true. Go to any running event and take a look at the last ones, if they can run....
I must look ridiculous.
- I see many ridiculous people and most of them don't run.
There's no dignity in running.
- There's no dignity in sitting in fron of the TV!
I'm too old to start running.
- I know a man who is now 85 and he still runs marathons, he started running when he was 48 because of some back pain, and it worked;
This is hard.
- And so?
Love,
Valeria
PS I want Lisa and Emi to organize a running meeting in 2011!!! I will join.
emi said to me in sweden: "it's just white noise, ignore it"---it really helps
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