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Well, everyone knows about the wall. Where you just honestly feel like you couldn't take another step. How do you guys push through the wall? (or do you?) Personally, i just keep chugging along and try to make the remainder of the run/race seem like not alot. "Just 4 more miles and im half way done, then just 8 to go!!"
When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
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The wall does not exist for those who have properly trained. Run more and the wall will move farther and farther away from the starting line.
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Carly
You'll ruin your knees!
It's all mental.
""...the truth that someday, you will go for your last run. But not today—today you got to run." - Matt Crownover (after Western States)
Good Bad & The Monkey
It's all mental
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
No. It is not. It is pure physiology. You can train properly and then go out and run too hard, too long, outside your abilities or beyond your nutrition and bonk. No matter how well trained you are. The mental part is what you do to prevent it and what you do to deal with it if and when it hits.
Yup, that too.
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"The most common question from potential entrants is 'I do not know if I can do this' to which I usually answer, 'that's the whole point'.--Paul Charteris, Tarawera Ultramarathon RD.
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That's a metaphor.