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Today I improved my personal best by 1km/h.
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Awesome job! What kind of training are you doing on a typical week?
Hard to say. During most of the summer I was focused on cycling and running was treated more like a side project. At the beginning of August I took a little break from being active and then I struggled due to heat. Right now I run a little over 8km per day and try to do so at least 5 times per week.
Earlier I mainly focused on running long distances but of course I wasn't very fast.
Now that I have more confidence in myself I do shorter runs but try to up the speed.
I love running. But I'll never love it as much as I love getting done running. I totally understand the motivation to get there faster.
It's weird how much pain and pleasure are intertwined with each other. You get a really good understanding of it when you do endurance sports
I feel like I turned a corner with running some years ago when I was deep in the discomfort of a particularly grueling session and I very reasonably began thinking about being done. It then occurred to me how the anticipation of finishing was what made the actual finish so great. I realized in that moment that the grueling post was in fact the entire point, and how lucky was I to be in the middle of it?