The Toxic Ten isn’t only physiological but that’s when the Gremlins talk the loudest. Can we collect a lot of their mutterings, put them altogether in a bag and drop them in the deepest ocean?
My suggestions to kick off:
“You’re the wrong age and weight”
“Somebody you know might see you”
“You could turn back and get back to bed”
“You didn’t even run as a teenager”
Let’s have some of your Gremlins for the bag.
"There's a load of stuff to do waiting for you at home"
"People will think that if you can do this you could be out earning money"
... I'll never get through it
.... shall I have another rest day
.... shall I repeat R2
.... I don't want to fail
.... how can I do 5 minutes more than last week... when doing the second 10 mins the other day was so hard....
.... my achilles/knee/back/googlehymer.... hurts
Listen to NRC Don’t wanna run run... the coach goes through all of them ☺️
Some of mine:
- 🛑 stop! (So loud I thought someone had said it to me)
- you can’t really run, you are just glorified walking
- you are never going to manage 30minutes
- you’re fat
- your friends think that you are ridiculously slow
Basically constant abuse, not only about running but I run faster than them now and every time they come I ignore them by thinking:
- I can run
I’ve achieved loads in a short amount of time
hU and friends believe in me and so should I
I love it
You’ll never do this. You’re fat, ugly and stupid. You don’t need to do this. I think of them as the Voices rather than the Gremlins though: gremlins are the ones that do physical things, like untying your shoelace just when you’ve found your rhythm. My strategy is to think back to the start of week 1, when they were saying exactly the same things: I’ve already proved them wrong on that. They were lying then and they’re lying now ! 😄
“ You will never be able to run for that long!”
Oops! Three months ago and I didn’t notice! Glug glug glug anyway!
Mine is, well one of them🤣
“what do you thing your doing at YOUR age” or
Who are you kidding? Run for 30 minutes?
Or
Naff off, I’m doing this lol
Pesky gremlins
Gremlins
Take that, gremlins!!
I don't believe in gremlins....
Gremlins need exterminating
