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| What's your mantra/slogan(what do you think about during your run)? (Read 841 times) |
| view log Wally & Leela |
posted: 8/28/2008 at 8:59 AM
modified: 8/28/2008 at 1:08 PM |
About a year ago, on my first run over 5 miles, I somehow started saying/chanting to the rhythm of my feet "The Road To Hoe Is Low And Slow"(with all of the rhyming words being on my left foot strike and the others on my right foot strike). Where the actual phrase came from, I do not know...it just sort of came into my head at that moment. I guess,I just needed to have something to concentrate on at the time to keep my mind off of the fact that I was going for my longest run of my life(at the time). Well, it worked. I was only going to do 5.5 miles that night...and I ended up doing 6 miles and felt great while doing it.
Ever since that night(a year ago), on just about every run, I find myself saying/chanting that same "mantra" or "slogan"...whatever you want to call it. I even find myself saying it while thinking about other things at the same time.
Anyway...as I was running last night(and repeating in my head ,"The Road To Hoe Is Low And Slow", over and over and over),I got to wondering...
Do any of you have a mantra/slogan/phrase that keeps your feet & legs moving? Or am I the only lunatic here???  |
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
--Confucius |
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posted: 8/28/2008 at 9:08 AM
modified: 8/28/2008 at 9:09 AM |
Everything's Gonna Be Alright.
Usually applies to any personal situation going on in my head or just making it through a tough run
MTA: Sung to Marley, of couse! |
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posted: 8/28/2008 at 11:47 AM |
What goes up must come down! 
Obviously I run in a hilly town! |
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posted: 8/28/2008 at 12:22 PM |
| Lately my favorite is the one I found here "H-T-F-U" (done on a left foot rhythm, like you do). That gets tme through and reminds me to toughen up, it's only a little discomfort, it'll be forgotten soon. |
Michael
Revised 2008 Goals: 180#s | 1000K | 100 pushups challenge
Upcoming Races: | Manchester Thanksgiving Day Race | Newport RI 10K
2009 Goals: 160# | NJ Marathon | New Haven Labor Day 20K | NYC Marathon
"The race goes not always to the swift, but to those that keep running." * ~ Unknown |
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posted: 8/28/2008 at 12:57 PM |
| I'm lame....I'll just start counting or will breathe in for two steps and breathe out for two steps. |
| Kerry |
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posted: 8/28/2008 at 2:21 PM |
| i often just count. I felt sort of dumb and never admitted that to anyone until a read an article where Paula Radcliffe says she counts too. Unfortunately, counting hasn't brought my marathon pace down near world-record levels. |
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| view log Bif! Bam! Pow! |
posted: 8/28/2008 at 3:03 PM |
I dont have anything I use most of the time...Any thing like that would drive me crazy on a long run. But if I am having a bad run often differnt songs or jingles will pop in my head. I cant remember most of them right now.
"put one foot in front of the other"
"what goes up must come down"
damn I know there were a few commercial jingles that show up, but only under duress I guess.
If I start counting I know I am struggling. |
Beware the Pink Boxing Gloves of DOOM!
"It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds" - Captain Hammer
2008 Goals New PR's in 5K 10K HM, M What now?
I failed the 12 minute run in 11th grade... |
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| view log Frustrating Project |
posted: 8/28/2008 at 3:31 PM |
I have four mantras
1) "HTFU"
2) "Suck it up, weak ass!"
3) "Pain!" (but you have to say it like you like it)
4) "Hail to the Victors..." |
20th Century: 800m: 2:04 |1600m: 4:37 |3200m: 10:06 |5k: 16:23 |10k: 35:38 |15k: 54:20
25k: 1:35:59
21st Century: 5k: 19:42 |10k: 43:00
"Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly, and they use too much vermouth."
Steve Allen |
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posted: 8/28/2008 at 3:38 PM
modified: 8/28/2008 at 3:38 PM |
One more mile and I'll walk a bit......when I finish that mile....one more mile and THEN I'll walk a bit....and so on and so forth until I'm done, never walking of course.
Modified for typos |
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Jake440 |
posted: 8/28/2008 at 3:43 PM
modified: 8/28/2008 at 3:43 PM |
I have two I like, kinda cheezy but they work for me.
"I am a machine" - Since machines don't get tired, and repeat the same motion over and over without slowing down.
"My form, my legs, my heart" - on this one as I say it to myself I focus on each part. When I think form I check how it is and make any necessary corrections. One legs I think about my training and how prepared I am for the race. And on heart I focus on how I want it more than the person in front of me.
Mostly, I only use these in races or hard training days. |
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posted: 8/28/2008 at 3:45 PM |
| Quote from Craig S on 8/28/2008 at 3:38 PM: One more mile and I'll walk a bit......when I finish that mile....one more mile and THEN I'll walk a bit....and so on and so forth until I'm done, never walking of course
Amen to that one...
Also "one more mile and I'll quit"
and various things having to do with beer or something I really want to eat if I push an easy run "just one more mile" |
2008 Goals
Don't attack the guy that passes me like I'm standing still when I think I'm running fast...I can't catch him anyway and I'd just look silly
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posted: 8/28/2008 at 4:07 PM |
This might sound silly, but it's been working quite well for me (silly, because my runs are so short!).
I pretend that I'm Jamie Donaldson during the last few miles of this years Badwater. She has totally inspired me and I know for sure that no matter how hard or how bad I think that I'm feeling, it's nothing compared to the effort and dedication that she put into that race.
If she can do what she did, then I know that I can finish my little run. |
~ Mary ~
"Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made."
- Patti Sue Plumer |
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posted: 8/28/2008 at 4:38 PM |
| Quote from Jake440 on 8/28/2008 at 3:43 PM: "My form, my legs, my heart" -
LOVE That.
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"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
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| view log Masters Clydesdale |
posted: 8/28/2008 at 4:57 PM |
I can get into a nice rythem going 1-2-3-breathe 1-2-3-breathe or 1-2-breathe or for a tempo run maybe 1-2-breathe. It kind of helps me to maintain a natural pace and heart rate without looking at monitors and such... I just run.
For Cycling maybe something like "just keep spinning... just keep spinning... just keep spinning" and hope you don't make the sound audible enough for anyone to call the cops on you as an escaped wack-o. If the van shows up with straight jackets then it becomes a tempo ride. |
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posted: 8/28/2008 at 4:58 PM |
| I think about all kinds of crazy crap. |
a vagabond,..highway-beater; a rolling stone, one that does nought but runne here and there.
~Cotgrave, Randle A dictionarie of the French and English tongues, 1611
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