Tag: fear
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Engaging your mind 2: Fear
Another exercise to get your mind right for the Comrades Marathon Write down the things that worry you. List them. Externalise them. Get them out of you. That way they don’t gnaw at, give you sleepless nights, undermine you. Then take time to understand them. Fears are not a sign of a moral failing, or…
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Fear
You can call it Fear. It’s more. It’s the real you, the you that has to do the hard miles, asking the ego-you that one that likes to talk and dream and take chances: Are you doing the right things now? Do you have the right run-day plan? Can you handle a hilly 87 km…
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2011 digestion: Inspiration or Perspiration?
Well it would never be one or the other. Couldn’t be really. The two, working together, got me through Comrades 2011. Perspiration Without inspiration working hard for nearly 12 hours wouldn’t be possible. No point to that sort of effort without a splash of grandeur. Without the work, without dogged, jogged steps, the inspiration would…