Needed to share this...

[UnfitNoMore]

“Right now all your runs should be pretty easy.

Yes, all of them.

Right now your running should be about relieving stress… not physically stressing you.

Your running should lift you up… not beat you up.

Your run should end with you feeling stronger… not weaker.

That distance… duration… between the starting & finish lines of your run should be the easiest part of your day.

Because life before & after the run isn’t that easy right now.

But if you can just run… or walk… or do jumping jacks… or yoga… or dance… if you can just move… you’ll be moving forward.

That’s the only metric that matters.

I’ve always told you that your running is about so much more than those numbers on your watch.

Your running is about what you get out of the time & distance those numbers represent.

I told you to bring the learnings and breakthroughs and victories you experienced and earned on the run into the rest of your life.

And I told you that If you can do that… you’ll become a better runner.

More importantly... you’ll become a better person.

I didn’t lie.

So, I want you to trust me again when I say that right now all your runs should be pretty easy.

Believe me… running easy is going to be hard enough.

But you’re a runner.

And running is not about things getting easier.

Running is about being able to get through harder & harder things.

That’s why I know we’ll get through this.

Because we’re all runners.

And that’s what we do.”

Coach Bennett, Nike Global Head Coach

Happy running folks

[sunshinefish Graduate10]

Love this. So true. Thank you for sharing.

[Buddy34 Graduate10]

So true👍👍😊

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This is wonderful. Please can you post it on the C25k forum too - there's a few folk on there this evening who I think might benefit from this. Thank you x

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate]

Brilliant

[UpTheStanley Graduate10]

Missed the quotes, thought that was all your own work 😀

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10 in reply to UpTheStanley]

I’m not that smart 🤣

[Sparkey5000 60minGraduate in reply to UpTheStanley]

Me too and was so impressed....you always have great words of advice UnfitNoMore

[misswobble Graduate10]

Love Coach Bennett 🥰

[linda9389 Graduate10]

Brilliant! Great advice 👍

[Fabulous450 Graduate10]

Well you know I’m going absolutely love this!! If it wasn’t night time, I’d be out there right now!! 😁😁🤗❤️

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate10]

Thanks for this... needs posting on all forums maybe.. this bit especially resonates... run , yes, if you can but...

" ....or walk… or do jumping jacks… or yoga… or dance… if you can just move… you’ll be moving forward.

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10 in reply to Oldfloss]

May have to miss out the Active 10 forum... “we are runners” may scare the heck out of them 🤣🤣

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate10 in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Ha ha.. well I am currently working out ??? boogying out... to this to kick my Day off... this could scare them even more!

youtu.be/rLfsP_G7m4c(Not working as expected?)

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10 in reply to Oldfloss]

Yes... that’s the stuff of nightmares 🤣

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate10 in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Cheeky!

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10 in reply to Oldfloss]

Not you... just the very concept of me even contemplating anything involving “dance”

[FRM22 Graduate10]

Coach Bennett is my hero, I love his guided runs. Thanks for posting his words.

[Vintage61 Graduate10]

Amen to that 🙏

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I've found NRC so helpful, inspiring and non pressured when I run. It's taken me to 10 miles and Coach Bennett was with me all the way. Love it. Thank you for posting.

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10 in reply to Hidden]

That 10 mile guided run came out while I was still finishing C25K and he announced there was a surprise at the 7 mile mark... I needed to know what it was, and it seemed to take me forever to get there... I told him how cruel he’d been to me... couple of weeks later the guided half marathon dropped, about 2 weeks before my event 😀

[Run46 Graduate10]

Yes...brilliant 👌

Right now we don't want to push ourselves hard and decrease our immune systems, but a fabulous gentle run (is their really such a thing 😂) to fill us with life and improve our immune system is an absolute pleasure 💕

I'm not a religious person but Please God they don't take away our daily exercise outdoors 🤞🤞🤞

[Roxdog Graduate10]

Amazing! Thank you.

[ktsok]

I think I have a crush on Coach Bennett 😍

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10 in reply to ktsok]

He’s tweeting a lot at the moment... lots of advice, but I don’t want to look like a Nike fanboy!

@bennettrun

[Gaea19]

Very comforting & very true. Thank you for sharing this 💞