Running

How do you prepare for a hard run ? 

For me, I need to not think about it, because the excuses come crawling in my head. Also, I do some active warmup before and theragun massage, and we are good to go😅

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It helps to have a coach and push you. Hmm, good advice for the long runs. Last time it helped to look at it as an adventure, stop computing the distance left all the time, and just enjoy being outside and exploring the city.

It's difficult though, when you get past 20k, to run in crowded areas and avoid people

I do my hard runs on the track, my coach waits for me and so I have to show up. For long runs, I think in milestones, first 5km warm up. Then 5 km to the park, then 10km in the park, then 5 km easy, then 4 km more till the bridge, then 2km to home because the last km never matters 🤷‍♀️

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more like a training day, for example a long run you don't fancy going, or hard intervals. For competition its easier, at least for me, to prepare mentally.

Do you mean hard run like training day or in a competition?

They can be enjoyable with the right mindset. I do however like the medium runs more😅 

No thinking is the answer, but you need some experience to get used to doing it

I weirdly enjoy my long runs. It's the medium-long runs that I dread sometime. But I do the same thing as you - no thinking. I just put on my clothes and go grind out the miles.

haven t tried caffeinated chewing gum, might give it a try in the future

Half a banana
Little bit of tailwind
Maybe some caffeinated chewing gum driving to the track/start line.