why so hard to (Read 929 times)

My advice: just go run - once. One time. Slow and easy. Tell yourself its just once. You'll go back to the couch tomorrow. It's the first Law of Runner's Dynamics: a runner at rest tends to stay at rest; a runner in motion tends to stay in motion. I suspect if you just get moving, even once, you'll find it easier to keep going the next day, and the next, and the next. When you get back from your one single solitary run, and you're feeling sweaty and wonderful, you'll wonder why you thought you needed motivation.

I think you are being a bit hard on "the chosen one". He just needs some tender lovin care (that's you) and perhaps a foot massage...then I am sure he can get back to a nice and easy trail run and then he'll wonder why he didn't get out earlier. I have never returned from a run wishing I hadn't done that. Whereas I have woken up from a night out with too much fun and had a few regrets.

Promise yourself that if you run just one mile, you can quit if you still want to. See what happens then.

I'm suffering from the same thing. Bruised my achilles tendon and can't run on it. Doesn't stop me from the staionary bike , weights and stretching etc, I just don't seem to have any drive at the moment to do these things. I've actually been down almost a month now with a couple of forced runs that only seemed to aggravate it. Guess I'm suffering form running withdrawal.