Am I really a runner?? by AidanUK

I seemed to have solved my problem with motivation.

How I hear you ask?  Perhaps some mental coaching?  Maybe a new training regime or eastern meditation?  Peppy songs on my Ipod?

Try good old fashion embarrassment.......after all how could I have not got my run in yesterday and then posted this morning explaining I failed again.  But in whatever shape or form it comes I will gladly take and become best friends with it.  

So this is me paying homage to realbuzz, thanks.

There must be something to be said for embarrassment as a motivator too as I clocked my fasted 10k ever last night, at what I consider to be a very respectable 46 minutes.  Gives me hope that sub 45 for the British 10k is not such a ridiculous target.

As always with my best runs I completely zoned out and the time flew by.  I was having this conversation with my cousin earlier this week when she suggested that I "must enjoy the running as it gives you time to think".  I am afraid I had to sheepishly respond that actually I didn't think at all when I ran.  Am I alone in this phenomenon?  Or is it just my natural state of low level brain activity that causes it? 

She was right however with one thing, I do enjoy the running.  Is it juts me but I become uber aware of my body and hypnotised by the rhythm, every little tweak and stretch becomes magnified and consumes my whole world and in this state of runners Zen I get lost.

How then could motivation ever be a problem when I know nirvana is waiting for me?

The perverse thing is I know it will be.

Running.......all in your head?