Motivating Others
From my status update on Facebook....
I got an email from someone crediting my training posts for them exercising more. I was elated.
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Mark I gotta be honest..i went to the pool on Sunday with 54 laps stuck in my head (which I completed) ...your motivating a few people....thanks
Yancy That's awesome Mark, and nice work! I'll go to the pool this weekend with Lance Armstrong's Sunday 2.6 mile swim suck in my head. PS did you time it, did i just say that? 
Yancy Mark McGovern if you're the second person to step forward, does that make for 100 times improvement?
Lisa I've often thought that my posts were annoying until one day a friend said the same thing - and she ran the 5 miler on Sunday - that is the best feeling!!! and i'm gonna keep on posting!!!
George Yancy, you're basically saying I should keep checking in to the gym...
Yancy George, no, checking in tells me nothing, post stats, details, accomplishments.. Humanize the effort.
Mark Yes I timed it but I did not want to embarrass you with my Phelps like time...okay the reality was 57
Tamara I'm just glad ur not posting anything more obnoxious, I hate for the rest of ur ideas to catch on!
The Other Fear
I've just discovered another fear, actually 3 so far.
1. The Finish Line. I've learned from doing many marathons it's all about the journey. My first fear is the depression that will consume me over the days following the event.
2. The mass swim start. It's a very common fear that has subsided as my swim confidence has increased. Swimming 1.5 miles last Saturday helped, this is going away.
3. What if 1 is not enough? Deep into training I've noticed I've almost never been so happy, what if i don't want that feeling to end? We'll see where this goes. It could be that i need a dose of over-training to bring me down to earth.
Runners Low
I've been working on this without giving it a title or labeling it as a concept that has shape, the runners low.
Awful runs, until this year, drove me crazy. This year i've been embracing them. Pushing through them has been an incredibly rewarding experience. Figuring out dynamically why the run is bad and pushing through it will pay back big time when it's needed on race day; it has to.
A bad race is surely in the future, or at least a long stretch of bad. It's all about managing it and knowing how to battle it back.
Thoughts inspired by a promotional video on Geoff Rose, "Slogging to the Top".
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