Running on Empty

After watching the London Marathon, I was just thinking of how
many people are running on empty or running empty along the road?!!
How many of us have stopped next to road without gas/petrol in our cars?
How many times have you gone out running during early mornings without a breakfast? Especially because you don't really want to eat right before a run? Early moring runs will more often than not be without food... I, personally, try to eat at least three hours before any big race, but don't really bother with food in morning on a normal easy run!!


Have you been running on empty in your life or feel that you constantly end up with an empty tank? I felt like this a couple of time where I just couldn't get filled back up. As quicly as I have taken a rest, it doesn't last long and then I'm off... soon 'running' on empty again.

Feel like stopping or just taking a rest to get your energy levels up or at least just filled up a little again.

With small snacks and sipping at a drink in the couple hours leading up to the race, is my advice.
Maybe the thing is to make sure we don't run on empty. Try to fill up regularly. Maybe we should go a bit slower to save some fuel or energy!!

What ever works for you to make sure you're not running on empty or running empty, do it your way... get some rest, slow down, find the right balance, eat well or fill up regarly etc.

Running Wild

Those who are 'Friends' fans like me, would know this scene (one of my favourite) where Phoebe and Rachel goes out running. Phoebe pulls off this ridiculous funny running style. Rachel tries to be very conservative with her own style and even go so far as to try to avoid Phoebe.
How many of us is like Rachel and then you get someone or something that makes you to change?

Why are we so conservative or let me say stuck in our thinking or our ways of doing stuff? The older we get the more we are set in the way we think.

It isn't that easy to change, or to accept change...

The scene doesn't stop there, it goes further and Rachel actually (on her own) tries this 'Running Wild' style of Phoebe. It's like a no worry, don't care style that just expresses everything in Phoebe's heart.

Why don't you try this?
Some of us even got this odd running style, or custom route we run every time. Well, I'm one for challenge and definitely not one for routine... so here it is; 'get out there, do something different, run a different route, go run a mountain trail somewhere, change something, brake free, run wild!!

We need someone or something like Phoebe to influence our old ways, and then maybe let ourselves run wild and free.

Downhill is Better?

I personally like running but I don't love it. But it sure teach me loads!!
I will tell you why?
I see every time I go out on the road as a challenge, because that's me.
I DON'T prefer down hill, first because it not good for my knees etc. Second I find it to easy.
I LIKE hills, I ran as hard as I can on hills. I love that, that's me.
It feels as if a hill is mocking me, 'hahaha.....you can't' and then I respond 'I will show you'.
I never stop going up on any hill, except at the top and that is the same if I'm on a bike.

Now to bring this to life......That's my life, my personality, the drive in me.
Can I change it, maybe, should I change it, I don't know.
But it is part of me.....I do know how to fight, how to persevere, never give up (even if my legs burn up). I won't back off.
I do know that life is sometimes up hill, but the great thing about every hill, is that there's a up and then a down.
Please down think I'm this monster that like 'No Pain no Gain', no not at all, I know my own limits.
And that's the beauty of this sport, after every hill it's that time to sit back and enjoy the ride!!

C