Now that I’m back from vacation I leave no hesitation to getting back into the swing of things. I haven’t gone for a run in over a week and my first half marathon is in 2 weeks. Needless to say I need to put my feet to the pavement. During my warm-up, I contemplated what distance I should run. Feeling the tightness in calves I agreed that running a 5k should be a fine distance to break the ice. As I worked up the mental courage to get started, I thought about how far I’ve came and how much further I have to go and started my run. While I listened to the rhythm of my breath and feet hitting the pavement, I tried to give myself a reason to stop what I’m doing, quit and go home. The only thing that came to mind was all the people I would be letting down if I did quit including myself. It made me wonder, how could I come so far and still have thoughts of giving it up? Where is this undercover self-doubt coming from? I have no intentions of giving up and letting go of what I worked SO HARD to get. So why am I having thoughts of quitting run through my mind? I do know one thing, I’m not going to listen to these thoughts, and I’m not letting anything get in the way of my goals. While this suppose to be a post about my first run since my vacation it has become a declaration to world that I’m not giving up on my goals. I’m going to see it through to the end. BTW I did complete my run and it felt great to be done.
What do you think about this? Do you have thoughts of quitting?How you you combat them?
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