Collecting Gremlins

[HeavyFoot]

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.

[GoogleMe Graduate]

"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"

[primaballerina]

... 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

[Couchpotato2 Graduate]

Listen to NRC Don’t wanna run run... the coach goes through all of them ☺️

[Couchpotato2 Graduate in reply to Couchpotato2]

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

[ButtercupKid Graduate]

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 ! 😄

[Elfe5 Graduate]

“ You will never be able to run for that long!”

Oops! Three months ago and I didn’t notice! Glug glug glug anyway!

[HeavyFoot Graduate in reply to Elfe5]

I have found a solution: I just tell the Gremlins “Go away. You know I’m going to finish, so don’t waste your time and mine”. It works!

[Oldlady57]

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